adjuration

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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

There was no pretence of moderation, and, save in the technical adjuration for mercy, no attempt to evade the responsibility.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

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

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