Caballing

Washington, a dismal swamp at the best of times, was sweaty and feverish, and so were its inhabitants, with Grant's presidency soon to enter its final year and the whole foul political crew in a ferment of caballing and mischief. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

What we have is a bunch of unelected 'clerks' caballing together and making a false arrest of a governor? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ill-clad at the same time, and ill-shod, they fell to caballing and arranging plans to attack the city of Chios. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Even in respect of the very mischief from which he had fled, the detraction and caballing of the envious, he was hardly any better off at Berlin than he had been at Paris. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Theists have never been found caballing in any state. ❋ Unknown (2007)

“Would you like a retainer for the caballing your strauss is about to receive?” ❋ Miss Snark (2006)

For a time, by dint of much caballing and much dwelling upon his own deserts, he triumphed over his enemies in the matter of the degree. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The Cameronians were about to take arms for the restoration of the house of Stewart, whom they regarded, with justice, as their oppressors; and the intrigues of the period presented the strange picture of papists, prelatists, and presbyterians, caballing among themselves against the English government, out of a common feeling that their country had been treated with injustice. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Dozens of unnecessary zippers on pants and jackets will leave most goys groping for untold minutes to find their change or house keys, and the constant rattling noise of excess buckles will let caballing Members know when a fashionable goy is near. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Though the intrigues of favourites have sometimes removed him, he always retired with the esteem of his Sovereign, and was recalled without caballing or cringing to return. ❋ Various (N/A)

Abbe Fouquet endeavoured to exasperate the Queen by telling her that I was continually caballing with the annuitants and officers of the militia; and because I refused to go to Parliament, in obedience to the ❋ Various (N/A)

By dint of caballing, he succeeded in obtaining an open competition for the work in question; whoever chose, was at liberty to send in his picture, and the best would obtain the preference. ❋ Various (N/A)

The caballing for dissolution of the Union, why should that be treasonable? ❋ Various (N/A)

Instead, therefore, of caballing any longer separately, in small parties, they now united their counsels; the people themselves being dissatisfied with the present state of affairs, both privately and publicly (49) condemning the tyranny under which they lived, and calling on patriots to assert their cause against the usurper. ❋ Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (N/A)

Tiberius, that of the twelve candidates he only reserved to himself the recommendation of four, to be accepted without opposition or caballing. ❋ Caius Cornelius Tacitus (N/A)

It was otherwise in Perpignan, which was stiff with Government partisans and where all the different factions were caballing against one another almost as in Barcelona. ❋ Unknown (1938)