Summoned

Examples

• At last coffee is brought in, and the gentlemen are summoned. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He rushes to the fray as if he were summoned to a banquet. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• At the old lodgings it was understood that he was summoned to Dover, and, in fact, he was taken down the Dover road and cornered out of it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The milk sipped and the bread eaten, Fanny was again summoned. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He summoned an assembly or diet of the empire at Worms on the Rhine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It provided by a bill for a meeting of Parliament at least once in three years, whether the King summoned it or no. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At length he summoned me by a low, S-s-t, and I crept toward the sound of his voice to find him kneeling on the brink of an opening in the floor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Where _he_ is summoned, be sure a strong arm is needed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• With a renewal of tenderness, however, they returned to her room on leaving the dining-parlour, and sat with her till summoned to coffee. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• But when he was summoned to surrender by a band of guerillas, his constitutional weakness overcame him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I summoned all the resolutions I had made, in all those many days and nights, and all those many conflicts of my heart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Once more, I reviewed in my own mind the course which I had at last summoned composure enough to plan out for the future. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There are callers, she said, and I shall be summoned to the room. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We can soon see, replied the police officer, and ringing a bell he summoned an assistant to whom he issued a few directions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• When he believed this investment completed, he summoned the garrison to surrender. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Miss Keeldar, doomed to be in constant request during the morning, was presently summoned downstairs again. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I am well prepared, but there are precautions to be taken, that could not be taken until he was actually summoned before the Tribunal. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It was odd to have summoned him in that way, and then forgotten him; but Archer felt more curious than mortified. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It was arranged that more witnesses should be summoned, and that the London solicitor of the deceased should be invited to attend. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• To the van of the armies he summoned,-- Grace Boultby and Mary Sykes lead out Whinbury. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This important business having been transacted, Mr. Weller the elder proceeded to open that, on which he had summoned his son. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Sheridan having been summoned to Washington City, started on the 15th leaving Wright in command. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was evident that he had been summoned rather for the moral support of the stricken ladies than because of any specific aid that he could render. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• A bell summoned the teachers, patrons, and patronesses to the schoolroom. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He had trained it, probably by the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• She laid her little bundle of papers upon the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever she might be summoned. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I was necessarily one among the witnesses summoned to assist the objects of the investigation. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When summoned by her nurse she rose and departed very obediently, having bid us all a subdued good-night. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I did not need to be guided to the well-known room, to which I had so often been summoned for chastisement or reprimand in former days. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I rang; the nurse was summoned and came. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Typist: Nelly