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A version of this article appears in print on February 4, 2014, on page A15 of the with the headline: Former Aide To Christie Invokes Fifth .

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2014

And Calchas, while the altars blaze, Invokes the high gods to their feast!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various

Invokes strange deities: verse which erst while “Has dull'd the splendid circle of the moon; “And hid with rain-charg'd clouds her father's face.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

The queen assents, and from the infernal bowers Invokes the sable subtartarean powers, And those who rule the inviolable floods, Whom mortals name the dread Titanian gods.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

The hardy warrior now once more Offers the sacrifice of gore; The shield-bearer in Loke's game Invokes once more great Odin's name.

From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson