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Use in Literature

Summoning

Here they engaged vigorously in constructing a fort, and in summoning all the surrounding Indian tribes to join them in the invasion of the Southern States.–John S.C. Abbott in David Crockett.

Accordingly, they were summoned and asked to account for their absence from worship.–Brooks Adams in The Emancipation of Massachusetts.

Harry was summoned at midnight by Colonel Talbot.–Joseph A. Altsheler in The Guns of Shiloh.

Accordingly I summoned a debonair manner as I went on.–Marion Polk Angellotti in The Firefly Of France.

If tones could kill! I summoned breath enough to answer with cheerful coolness.–Marion Polk Angellotti in The Firefly Of France.

Mr. Evans summoned the deeper resources of his manhood and achieved an easier manner.–The Sturdy Oak (A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors)

From this height the cheetah surveyed the retreating herd of antelopes, and refused to descend when summoned.–Samuel White Baker in Wild Beasts and their Ways, vol 1.

It was Laurence who opened the door slightly when Malin summoned the household to admit him.–Honoré de Balzac in An Historical Mystery.

Marthe was summoned.–Honoré de Balzac in An Historical Mystery.

The Gravelots ought to have summoned you to have the woods better watched.–Honoré de Balzac in Sons of the Soil (tr Katharine Prescott Wormeley).

• Preface viii
• Use in Literature 1
• Summoning 1
• Summoning – "Aid" 17
• Summoning – "Alarm" 18
• Summoning – "Alice" 19
• Summoning – "Alone" 19
• Summoning – "Appearance" 20
• Summoning – "Arrive" 22
• Summoning – "Assembled" 23
• Summoning – "Assistance" 23
• Summoning – "Authorities" 25
• Summoning – "Bed" 25
• Summoning – "Being" 26
• Summoning – "Bell" 27
• Summoning – "Business" 29
• Summoning – "Call" 29
• Summoning – "Captain" 31
• Summoning – "Case" 31
• Summoning – "Caused" 32
• Summoning – "Children" 33
• Summoning – "Come" 33
• Summoning – "Commanding" 36
• Summoning – "Council" 36
• Summoning – "Courage" 38
• Summoning – "Court" 41
• Summoning – "Days" 42
• Summoning – "Departed" 46
• Summoning – "Dinner" 46
• Summoning – "Doctor" 47
• Summoning – "Done" 49
• Summoning – "Duties" 49
• Summoning – "Dying" 50
• Summoning – "Earl" 50
• Summoning – "Emperor" 52
• Summoning – "End" 52
• Summoning – "Energies" 53
• Summoning – "Entering" 54
• Summoning – "Evening" 54
• Summoning – "Eye" 55
• Summoning – "Father" 56
• Summoning – "Felt" 58
• Summoning – "Few" 59
• Summoning – "Final" 60
• Summoning – "Following" 60
• Summoning – "Forces" 61
• Summoning – "Forth" 62
• Summoning – "Found" 63
• Summoning – "Friends" 64
• Summoning – "General" 65
• Summoning – "Gentleman" 66
• Summoning – "Going" 67
• Summoning – "Great" 68
• Summoning – "Hands" 70
• Summoning – "Having" 72
• Summoning – "Heard" 73
• Summoning – "Heart" 75
• Summoning – "Help" 75
• Summoning – "Herself" 76
• Summoning – "Home" 77
• Summoning – "Hoped" 77
• Summoning – "Hour" 78
• Summoning – "House" 80
• Summoning – "King" 81
• Summoning – "Lady" 83
• Summoning – "Large" 84
• Summoning – "Leave" 85
• Summoning – "Let" 85
• Summoning – "Life" 86
• Summoning – "Little" 87
• Summoning – "Looking" 89
• Summoning – "Lord" 89
• Summoning – "Maid" 90
• Summoning – "Made" 91
• Summoning – "Men" 93
• Summoning – "Master" 95
• Summoning – "Means" 96
• Summoning – "Meet" 97
• Summoning – "Minutes" 98
• Summoning – "Miss" 99
• Summoning – "Morning" 100
• Summoning – "Mother" 102
• Summoning – "Myself" 103
• Summoning – "Name" 103
• Summoning – "New" 104
• Summoning – "Night" 105
• Summoning – "Officers" 106
• Summoning – "Old" 108
• Summoning – "Once" 109
• Summoning – "Opinion" 111
• Summoning – "Orderly" 112
• Summoning – "Others" 113
• Summoning – "Parliament" 113
• Summoning – "Part" 114
• Summoning – "Patient" 115
• Summoning – "People" 116
• Summoning – "Person" 117
• Summoning – "Physic" 117
• Summoning – "Placing" 119
• Summoning – "Poor" 120
• Summoning – "Presence" 120
• Summoning – "Presently" 121
• Summoning – "Priest" 122
• Summoning – "Principal" 123
• Summoning – "Resolute" 124
• Summoning – "Rest" 124
• Summoning – "Returned" 124
• Summoning – "Room" 125
• Summoning – "Rose" 127
• Summoning – "Second" 127
• Summoning – "Sent" 128
• Summoning – "Servants" 129
• Summoning – "Ship" 130
• Summoning – "Showing" 130
• Summoning – "Sir" 131
• Summoning – "Sat" 132
• Summoning – "Smile" 133
• Summoning – "Sooner" 133
• Summoning – "Sounded" 135
• Summoning – "Spoken" 136
• Summoning – "Strange" 137
• Summoning – "Street" 137
• Summoning – "Strength" 138
• Summoning – "Surprised" 138
• Summoning – "Surrender" 139
• Summoning – "Ten" 140
• Summoning – "Things" 140
• Summoning – "Thoughts" 141
• Summoning – "Thus" 142
• Summoning – "Troop" 142
• Summoning – "Voice" 143
• Summoning – "Waiting" 144
• Summoning – "Week" 145
• Summoning – "Witness" 145
• Summoning – "Work" 147
• Summoning – "Year" 147
• Summoning – "Young" 148
• Nonfiction Usage 150
• Script Usage 150
• Journalism Usage 150
• Legal Usage 151
• Governmental Usage 151
• Patent Usage 152
• Bibliographic Usage 152
• Encyclopedic Usage 159
• Lexicographic Usage 180
• Index 196