"I know I shan't be able to settle to Macaulay," said Cassandra, looking ruefully at the dull red cover of the prescribed volume, which, however, possessed a talismanic property, since William admired it.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
So may Dick Whittington have meditated as he trudged the London road, but Amyntas had no talismanic cat and no church bells rang him inspiring messages.
"Orientations"
William Somerset Maugham
Thus the talismanic words-"Oh!
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)