How To Use Summoning In A Sentence
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Summoning all her strength, she pushed herself from his lap only to feel her skirt slide over her half slip to her ankles.
HEAVEN, TEXAS
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Mrs Kernan, a widow and his official carer, said she had barricaded him in his bedroom before summoning relatives.
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The 1968 allusion is not superficial: the images these girls are summoning, just as much as the van-smashers did, are pictures of revolution ? the real thing, in its romantic and large-minded soixante-huitard form.
Student protests: the riot girls
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Walk alongside Mosedale Beck and after a short while gaze in awe at the steep ascent summoning you.
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Breath itself is melodramatized in summoning the so-called verb of being.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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It was these réseaux that Joly challenged, summoning prominent witnesses, questioning them harshly, and, when they refused to answer her questions, ordering them to prison.
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Summoning emergency help should an injury befall a walker would have been almost impossible.
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He said this in a low voice; but the don was already summoning somebody whom he called "Rosita" from the interior of the house.
The Mission of Janice Day
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But the Wayne, Pa., resident with the flashy volleys has taken a late-is-better-than-never approach in summoning the internal reserves it takes to go deep into a major.
USATODAY.com - Raymond doesn't love everybody labeling her
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The sudden summoning of the Cabinet underlines the seriousness of the situation.
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There's a wonderful cover shot to the 1958 album Legrand Jazz, with pianist-composer Michel Legrand wearing an expression of insouciant expectation, Gauloise at the corner of his mouth, indolently summoning invisible sidemen to action.
This week's new live music
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From the apex of its gambrel roof rose a tall, pointed cupola, the bell it once housed for summoning the students long gone.
AMAGANSETT
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The modern agriculture already said goodbye to the slash-and-burn cultivation, the self-sufficient age, the time powerful pulse is summoning the informationization making agriculture.
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It happens that the crude birth rate, at 13. 5*, is the lowest in a century (so basically it's the lowest ever in the US) -- and that's making headlines and summoning images of a babyless, unstable future.
Elizabeth Gregory: Post-Fertile Boomers Push the Birth Rate Drop
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He'll fight tooth and nail to keep you safe: chasing down suspects, finding hidden narcotics — even summoning the willpower to avoid tasty treats when in hot pursuit.
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The mystical warrior balled up his fist, summoning a sphere of black energy, which was surrounded by purple lightening, and flung it into the air.
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He said he was summoning his years of physical and spiritual training as a fighting monk.
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I jumped back before summoning up the courage to look closer.
Times, Sunday Times
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You could almost feel the humidity summoning the crabgrass and burdock up into gaps and voids.
VAPOR TRAIL
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Javier was summoning the storekeeper, a young man with a shock of black hair and white skin who was smoking behind the counter, when his gaze fell upon a pile of cassettes stacked haphazardly on top of the glass.
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At its best, this fetishistic attention to period accuracy succeeds in summoning an alien world in which characters move, fidget, and even kiss differently.
Mad About Mad Men
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London Underground customer services assistant tells of frustration at delays in summoning help after blast between Russell Square and King's Cross
7/7 inquest told of King's Cross confusion after Piccadilly line blast
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The government's intention in summoning the conference, with a predetermined verdict in favour of the Catholics, was to justify a subsequent policy of steady pressure on the Donatist laity.
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One story tells how Aurangzeb became rich by summoning fakirs (Muslim holy men thought to have magical powers) to his palace and forcing them to accept fine khilats.
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Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.
Nevermore
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For example, the Summoning Charm brings an object to the caster.
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Sacred Land Sa + Cr + Ed Increases the levels of summoning spells.
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From the apex of its gambrel roof rose a tall, pointed cupola, the bell it once housed for summoning the students long gone.
AMAGANSETT
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In my book, I refer to my mother as General Patton in pedal pushers, and frequently paint her as a shrieking harridan for whom water in the kitchen sink or unraked shag carpeting could produce bouts of rage: earsplitting, fist-shaking, God-summoning rage that fortunately predated the presence of guns in the suburban household.
Eric Poole: She has Every Right to Kill Me
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Too late - Verrarc was speaking to the militiamen, summoning a pair, plunging into the crowd and heading straight for him.
A TIME OF WAR
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Faiz Patel, one of the first to descend to the Piccadilly line platform, told the inquest of his frustration at the delays in summoning help for injured passengers.
7/7 footage at inquest shows final bomber Hasib Hussain
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The main challenge is summoning sufficient stamina and resources to last the course.
Times, Sunday Times
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All of a sudden it struck Darry that possibly someone was in trouble and was taking this means of summoning assistance; though the chances were very slight that any bayman would be anywhere near with that gray blanket covering things -- they knew enough to stick to the shore at such
Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast
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He'll fight tooth and nail to keep you safe: chasing down suspects, finding hidden narcotics — even summoning the willpower to avoid tasty treats when in hot pursuit.
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But it was not the Crown's invariable motive for summoning a Parliament.
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I rcd a telegram yesterday summoning me to Washington and I leave here today at noon.
Letter from Young John Allen to his Wife,March 15, 1906
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As a young professor in Uppsala, Linnaeus led his students on plant-collecting hikes, scattering them into the fields to botanize and summoning them to lunch with a trumpet.
Brotherhood of the Butterfly Net
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The man in evening dress, summoning a waiter, ordered wild game specialities, which were not available.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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In my book, I refer to my mother as General Patton in pedal pushers, and frequently paint her as a shrieking harridan for whom water in the kitchen sink or unraked shag carpeting could produce bouts of rage: earsplitting, fist-shaking, God-summoning rage that fortunately predated the presence of guns in the suburban household.
Eric Poole: She has Every Right to Kill Me
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Past the open patio doors, she could see the dark shed against the black of the evening sky where Caris sat alone with the lipa, the summoning-spell, and with the Archmage's cold body.
The Silent Tower
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It has occurred to me many times since this past Monday morning, since I got the phone call summoning me to the doctor's office to discuss what I knew would be bad news, that I might have been better off had I never taken any of those prenatal-got-a-healthy-baby? tests that seemed so compelling back when I was convinced that a perfectly healthy baby was a sure thing in this pregnancy.
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Now his attention was on the distant mental strings of summoning power he wielded.
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The veterinarian took his crew back home to the Napa Valley and Judy remained behind, summoning him with her thoughts.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Jack Kennedy summoning Robert Frost to deliver an inauguration poem and confer a bardic benediction on the new administration.
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Wildlife photographer Frans Lanting caught an emperor penguin summoning its offspring from a mass of youngsters in Antarctica.
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She hadn't waited, summoning him to her house that same night with the call to police headquarters, and he had gone, unquestioningly.
AMAGANSETT
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Mechanostriders: Summoning any of these mounts is now perfectly mechanical - sounding!
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Not only is there thus evidence of Auchterarder being assessed in dues and exercising the privileges of a Royal Burgh, but, what is of more importance, as showing its burghal character, is, that there are three separate precepts of Parliament -- in 1570, 1581, and 1600 -- summoning
Chronicles of Strathearn
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He was challenged with the test of summoning the inner resources needed to actualize Abraham's mighty vision and bring it down to earth.
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Jack Kennedy summoning Robert Frost to deliver an inauguration poem and confer a bardic benediction on the new administration.
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With no judge in sight, prosecutors started summoning each person on the docket to a desk at the front of the room for a brief conference.
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When, at length, after much heartburning and conscientious scrupling, he was mastered by a healthier spirit of self-assertion, which made him rebel against the uselessness of the conflict, and doggedly resolve to put an end to it, he was only enabled to stand firm by summoning to his aid all the strengthening egoism, which is latent in every more or less artistic nature.
Maurice Guest
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Both teams march out on to the pitch, where they're greeted by the customary scantily clad Maori summoning them with a toot on his conch.
Rugby World Cup 2011: Ireland v Wales - live! | Barry Glendenning
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I jumped back before summoning up the courage to look closer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well, no sounds today, of course, as whoever it is must be at work, so the only sound from this house is the endless drone of daytime TV, which I have spent much of the day summoning up the energy to turn off.
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Summoning all her strength, she pushed herself from his lap only to feel her skirt slide over her half slip to her ankles.
HEAVEN, TEXAS
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Care On Call involves residents summoning emergency help by using their phone or a pendant worn round their neck or on their wrist.
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The mountains were filled with his murids, who went from aoul to aoul preaching the new doctrine of the second prophet of Allah, and summoning all the warriors to rally around the chieftain commissioned by heaven to deliver the land from the threatened bondage to Russia.
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
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Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.
Nevermore
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At the Hall of Lanterns, we sound the temple gong, summoning the gods.
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Yeah, I know about the Baccinalia stuff which is why I went for more of an invite than a full-on summoning.
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People, especially refugees from the Maine frontier, were all too well accustomed to the sounds of trumpets summoning militiamen to battle, and to the sight of forces mustering to oppose the enemy.
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It took a foreign coach to unleash the real power from within the gut of England by summoning the courage to select about seven young, black, gifted patriots.
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He told the inquest of his frustration at the delays in summoning help.
7/7 inquest told of King's Cross confusion after Piccadilly line blast
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The main challenge is summoning sufficient stamina and resources to last the course.
Times, Sunday Times
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Very well, I will," said the other; and, calling the starboard watch, who were idling about and having a quiet caulk in the waist, he soon made them set about reducing the _Josephine's_ canvas -- there being no necessity yet for summoning "all hands," as there was not a breath of air stirring, while the sea had hushed its monotonous roll, calming down to the quiet of a mill-pond.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea
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I jumped back before summoning up the courage to look closer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The children of the neighbourhood were afraid of the hard-featured shrew who presided over the Bartell house; but, summoning their resolution, they rang the bell and told Ann Bartell of the accident.
THE ENEMY OF ALL THE WORLD
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With no church bell summoning us to worship, we have to decide what to do with our time - and depressingly most of us are spending it on the number one modern pastime: shopping.
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the callers were mothers summoning their children home for dinner
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Summoning the presence not to say something catty, I said something silly.
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As soon as the bar code scanner detects an overdue volume, it should set off buzzers and flashing lights, summoning the head librarian to deliver a public ticking off to the errant bookworm.
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She screamed as if summoning a loud-hailer from her oesophagus.
Times, Sunday Times
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The discretion of executing the process in summoning talesmen is vested in the sheriff, unless one of the party shall require a special bailiff, and then the discretion rests in him.
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When also a chieftain, desirous of raising a band of volunteers for some expedition against the enemy, rides from aoul to aoul summoning all good swords to follow, he transports along with him on the crupper of an attendant the aged minstrel, who at the gates sings the call to arms.
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
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The title track begins with a slow fade-in of sparse acoustic guitar above an undertow of bubbling feedback, as if it is the guitar itself which is summoning those sounds.
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Even more emphatic diplomatic gestures, like the summoning of ambassadors, have so far been ignored.
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Summoning up my most irritated manner I retorted rudely: `Oh, go and set up a fortune-teller 's tent in the Cathedral churchyard!
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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The game's so boring, they're summoning their dogs to have a pat or for a game of catch.
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Jawara quelled the revolt by summoning Senegalese aid.
8. Gambia
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There's a wonderful cover shot to the 1958 album Legrand Jazz, with pianist-composer Michel Legrand wearing an expression of insouciant expectation, Gauloise at the corner of his mouth, indolently summoning invisible sidemen to action.
This week's new live music
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The next step might be this: imagine in the future summoning a taxi that is not only driverless but ownerless.
Times, Sunday Times
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The visions of the Apocalypse, the seals, trumpets, and vials, &c., are grouped in sevens, and naturally begin on the first day of the seven, the birthday of the Church, whose future they set forth [Wordsworth]. great voice -- summoning solemn attention; Greek order, "I heard a voice behind me great (loud) as (that) of a trumpet.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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She is a reminder of the natural curiosity that we once held in our naive, untainted childhood, summoning us to reexamine our seemingly prohibitory surrounding walls and grasp beyond it.
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Would they understand a summoning gesture as ‘come here’ or a pushing-away motion as ‘go away’?
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Craning its thick, wattled neck back and forth as if seeking the origin of its summoning.
Earl of Durkness
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Mixing the two causes a violent chemical reaction, producing a cloudy tan potion which gives the user the power of summoning lightning.
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Yet while under the influence of the Summoning Stone, I feared for a time that it was the Demon King himself who had overmastered me, for I could not sense Morlock anywhere… but I understand better now.
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Worth not summoning my chucker-out to finish the flogging that seems to have been started aboard my ship?
City of Glory
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The alternative synod representatives said they would ask for the summoning of a church-people's council to elect a legitimate patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
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I kept them at the proper level, and when they reached the forward edge of the altar I cooperated with the summoning spell, increasing the force of each automatonlike step that I took.
Trumps of Doom
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What distinguishes this work from her previous evocations of food is her absolute dedication to summoning it up intensely.
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The flecks of light appeared to be summoning the wisdom of the ages.
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Between them they dispense alchemic and astrological advice and even perform magic by summoning the Queen of the Fairies.
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It appears then from what has been said that there are twenty-seven prerogative instances, namely, solitary instances; migratory instances; striking instances; clandestine instances; constitutive instances; conformable instances; singular instances; deviating instances; bordering instances; instances of power; instances of companionship and of enmity; subjunctive instances; instances of alliance; instances of the fingerpost; instances of divorce; instances of the door; summoning instances; instances of the road; instances supplementary; dissecting instances; instances of the rod; instances of the course; doses of nature; instances of strife; intimating instances; polychrest instances; magical instances.
The New Organon
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Khalifah took his meaning and heartening his heart and summoning spirit replied, “By Him who bestowed upon thee the succession to thy cousin, 256 I know her not in anywise and have had no commerce with her save by way of sight and speech!”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
