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

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

Playing backgammon with Pope Jules II., his form of adjuration was Chardieu bénit! when he lost, and Chardon bénit! when he won.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian

With this parting adjuration Mr. Hamlin turned over and tried to devote himself to his book.

From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert

What an accusation could not effect, an adjuration shall.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah