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call together- It is a formal convocation of Fremen leaders to witness a combat that determines tribal leadership.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- Overnight, the satyrs and nymphs disappeared into the woods for a convocation of the Cloven Elders.Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
- I would mingle with the festival the rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- I think we should convoke a military tribunal right now and pass sentence.Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
- I cannot be part of this gaudy convocation of princesses and fairies, jesters and imps, specters and illusions.Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
- Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him.William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- If the bishops in Convocation submitted this morning, I'll take it off ....Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons
- He did not need to tell the Convocation he had failed.Neil Gaiman -- The Graveyard Book
- The convocation speaker is Elie Wiesel, the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Holocaust survivor, scholar, poet, philosopher, and all-around conscience for hire.Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
- But it is only the language of economic class they are speaking, in one of its allowable outward forms, like the convocation of station wagons at the start of the year.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- You have your murder of ravens, your convocation of eagles, your gaggle of geese, your raft of ducks, your band of jays, your parliament of owls, and so on, but what about dragons?Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
- For the cries of pain and the hymns and protests of oppressed people have summoned into convocation all the majesty of this great government—the government of the greatest nation on earth.Lyndon B. Johnson -- We Shall Overcome
- ConvocationErik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- There was to be a convocation of Barnacles on the occasion, in order that that very high and very large family might shed as much lustre on the marriage as so dim an event was capable of receiving.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- Sixth: Under the Charter of the United Nations, we are asking tonight that an emergency meeting of the Security Council be convoked without delay to take action against this latest Soviet threat to world peace.John F. Kennedy -- Cuban Missle Crisis Speech
- I had no idea what they might spring on my mother and me once they had us in the office; the very word "conference" suggested a convocation of authorities, accusations and face-downs, a possible expulsion.Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- 12:16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.The Bible -- Exodus
- From the time when powerful ministers made it a political principle to prevent the convocation of a national assembly, one consequence has succeeded another, until the deliberations of the inhabitants of a village are declared null when they have not been authorized by the Intendant.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- If the General Medical Council, the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Incorporated Law Society, and Convocation were abolished, and their functions handed over to the Mr Redford, the Concert of Europe would presumably declare England mad, and treat her accordingly.George Bernard Shaw -- Mrs. Warren's Profession
- Colenso was the object of acrimonious debate wherever the clergy gathered, and Stanley once made a ringing Convocation speech in his defense, asking that body was it aware that Colenso was the only colonial bishop who had bothered to translate the Bible into Zulu, which was rather more than the rest had done.Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman