BRITISH CABINET • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of British Cabinet

... complexion. It would be impossible for the reader, even were I to insert the letters at full length, to comprehend the real cause of their being written, without a glance into the interior of the British cabinet ...

— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

... at all. Hincks and Chandler found in office in London a new government which appeared biased against the valley route. Upon a peremptory request from Hincks for a definite answer within a fortnight, the British Cabinet, in spite of the previous promise to consider the route an open question, declined to aid any but a road following Major Robinson's line. The negotiations broke off, joint action between the provinces failed, and each province switched to ...

— The Railway Builders - A Chronicle of Overland Highways • Oscar D. Skelton