adjuration

Example Sentences

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New York's volcanic little Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia is paternally proud of his neat fleet of silver streamlined, street-cleaning trucks, which bear the adjuration: Our City�Yours and Mine�Keep It Clean.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Not too many of you," was his final adjuration, as, giving me a look, he slipped out into the hall.

From The Amethyst Box by Green, Anna Katherine

He was too cunning a man—too well versed in human nature—to attempt heroics with such a girl as Rhoda, and there was no enraptured catching of hands, no falling upon one knee, no passionate adjuration.

From The Vicar's People by Fenn, George Manville

Then followed, in order to compel them to act, an adjuration introducing the mystical names, ‘those written at birth in their heart by their father and mother.’

From The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion by Leuba, James H. (James Henry)

She went away a few minutes afterwards, stopping for awhile to exchange greetings with Ann Packet, to whom she gave her address—a back street in Southwark Bridge Road—after much adjuration.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by Robinson, Frederick William