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Henry Kissinger happened to be visiting London at the time and witnessed the caballing against her.

From Newsweek • Apr. 8, 2013

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.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various

Princes, equerries, physicians, pages—all conferring, whispering, plotting, and caballing, how to induce the king to set off!

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 by Burney, Fanny

While Bolingbroke and his confederates were caballing and counselling, and paltering and drinking, the Whig statesmen were maturing their plans, and when the moment came for action it found them ready to act.

From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by McCarthy, Justin

What those caballing captains may design, I must prevent, by being first in action.—

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir