OCCULT in a Sentence

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1. With this one, all the forces of nature that are occult and deep and strong must have worked together in some wondrous way.

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 Meanings and Examples of OCCULT
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occult
 a.  hidden from the eye or the understanding; invisible; secret; concealed; unknown
Classic Sentence:
1  With this one, all the forces of nature that are occult and deep and strong must have worked together in some wondrous way.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  Doubtless, there is something magnetic or electric in some of these combinations of occult forces which work for physical life in strange way; and in himself were from the first some great qualities.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  I began to think of genii, sylphs, gnomes, in short, of all the ministers of the occult sciences, until I laughed aloud at the freaks of my own imagination.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 60. The Telegraph.
4  This we must suppose due rather to some special and occult quality inherent in the man, than to success being naturally to be looked for in the like attempts.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXXII.
Example Sentence:
1  He had hoped that he might give him some proofs of the great accomplishments which he possessed in occult things and in this way add to his own glory and renown.