Surely it wasn't their intention, in letting him have a glimpse of their arcane practices, that he would turn around and blab them to the entire world?

Afterward, the investigators questioned Mr. Bordeau about the arcane practices at issue.

Now, the cracked stone planters were planked over as tables, or else spell-sealed as vault space to preserve rare scrolls on arcane practice.

He was a writer of arcane but brilliant practice, an uncompromising innovator whose learning, wit and originality place him in the front rank of modern European fiction.

The representation of poor people is, in many ways, an arcane practice requiring information not routinely taught in law schools and not generally available from the private bar.

The very term suggested arcane and antiquated practices, designed to blunt the mind and deaden the soul.

Took had been a doctor in England but had been shunned from England for his arcane practices.

For it illustrates well how literacy co-exists with arcane mystical practices and how such practices co-exist with and even help to account for scientific progress.

Could some magazine scanned in a barbershop somewhere also have acquainted Belford with the arcane practice of licking frogs?

Angus MacNeil: The cash-for-honours investigation I initiated should shame us into reforming parliament's arcane practices - but there is no political will to do so.