Summon

Examples

• I dared summon solitude to guard us. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But, Jane, I summon you as my wife: it is you only I intend to marry. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He was going to summon them when my guardian interposed and asked him to pause a moment, as he wished to say a word to him first. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• History can be all things to all men: nothing is easier than to summon the Terror, the Commune, lynchings in the Southern States, as witnesses to the excesses and hysterias of the mob. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Kindly summon your men, and I will try. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Rushworth, shall we summon a council on this lawn? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But I can't summon the vanity to think so. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• 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.
• I am very glad to have seen you, Lily continued, summoning a smile to her unsteady lips. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Summoning the cab of most promising appearance, he directed the driver to repair to Montague Place, Russell Square. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It was no laughing matter with Estella now, nor was she summoning these remembrances from any shallow place. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Summoning Mary, I soon had the room in more cheerful order: I prepared him, likewise, a comfortable repast. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• And just as, summoning my courage, I was preparing to go down and do what, after all, I most wished to do in the world--viz. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They demanded the summoning of a body roughly equivalent to the British parliament, the States General, which had not met since 1610. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A glass of water,' said the humane Mr. Pickwick, summoning the landlady. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The pleasanter face which had replaced his, on the occasion of my last visit, answered to our summons, and went before us to the drawing-room. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The prayer-bell rang; I obeyed its summons. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The ordinary Roman citizen, like the ordinary Boer, was a farmer; at the summons of his country he went on commando. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The summons was almost magical. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• To my surprise, it was a woman who answered the summons, a large, coarse-faced, elderly woman, in an apron. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Reader, it was on Monday night--near midnight--that I too had received the mysterious summons: those were the very words by which I replied to it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• No, I sent for him: but you know, you affirmed that I might do this with safety, since you were sure he would not obey my summons. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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