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

The solemn adjuration was put, the question asked, and Aymer in an audible voice replied, “I will.”

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard

Barnes was moved to adjuration: "I'll take my Bible oath, your Grace, that the Duchess got into the carriage outside Cane and Wilson's."

From Amusement Only by Marsh, Richard

Both set in with an adjuration, a vision.

From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan

Here there was a fierce adjuration from the Malays in the other boat, which Hilton obeyed to the extent of speaking in a lower tone.

From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville