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  • PARRIS, sweating: These people should be summoned.   (source)
  • I'm trying to summon the courage to do what I have to do.   (source)
    summon = call forth (from within)
  • You also have to be able to summon this power at will.   (source)
  • I distinctly called to speak to you and summon you to our cause. You see, my organization is interested in receiving small donations from people just like you...   (source)
    summon = call forth (ask for help)
  • When he threw the latch, the thumper would begin its summons.   (source)
    summons = call (to come)
  • Boys have never been known to go straight up to houses to ring bells to summon forth friends.   (source)
    summon = call
  • "Excuse me," I said, summoning all my courage, "but why do you call them Little People?"   (source)
    summoning = calling forth (from within)
  • The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength, and more strength he had just summoned, into the fish's side...   (source)
    summoned = called forth (from within)
  • [This is Riff's summoning of the gang, and they surround him.]   (source)
    summoning = calling to come
  • Since his boat was the fastest, Mark was summoned to aid in the search.   (source)
    summoned = called (to come out and)
  • He was twenty years old and he couldn't even summon enough strength to turn over in bed.   (source)
    summon = call forth (from within)
  • Restless, restless, were the gods and always in motion! ... no part of the earth was safe from them, for, if they wished for a thing, they summoned it from the other side of the world.   (source)
    summoned = called forth (made it appear locally as though by magic)
  • It was evident that he had been summoned rather for the moral support of the stricken ladies than because of any specific aid that he could render.   (source)
    summoned = called (asked to come)
  • Every day over the following week, K. expected another summons to arrive,   (source)
    summons = call (to come)
  • The earliest riser, coming forth in the dim twilight, would perceive a vaguely-defined figure aloft on the place of shame; and half-crazed betwixt alarm and curiosity, would go knocking from door to door, summoning all the people to behold the ghost—as he needs must think it—of some defunct transgressor.   (source)
    summoning = calling to come
  • I summoned strength to ask what had caused this calamity.   (source)
    summoned = called forth (gathered from within)
  • I knew I should be drunk with gratitude that I, an ignorant girl who'd crawled out of a scrap heap, should be allowed to study there, but I couldn't summon the fervor.†   (source)
  • She summoned them from someplace she only now recognized and hurled them at Ilsa Hermann.†   (source)
  • Then I can't think of anything else, so we sit in silence until a Peacemaker summons him.†   (source)
  • But the darkness pressed against her and she couldn't summon her voice.†   (source)
  • I have summoned Dr. Kumar from New Delhi.†   (source)
  • Just like in Toei's original Supaidaman TV series, you summoned the robot simply by shouting its name.†   (source)
  • He even found me a wife, Mosag, and you see how our family has grown, all through Hagrid's goodness....Harry summoned what remained of his courage.†   (source)
  • I didn't want to be fetching him any more than he wanted his ragamuffin daughter summoning him home like a wayward schoolboy.†   (source)
  • The aircraft was equipped with wheels rather than floats and thus couldn't land, but McCunn was certain he'd been seen and had no doubt the pilot would summon a floatplane to return for him.†   (source)
  • The guards summoned a doctor.†   (source)
  • Fritz was a very awkward child who had been summoned for chastisement again and again.†   (source)
  • The day after Christmas Papa summoned Stacey, Christopher-John, Little Man, and me into the barn.†   (source)
  • Once we got her into the house, Richard summoned Mrs. Murgatroyd and ordered up a glass of iced tea for Laura.†   (source)
  • And in his dream, he had chosen not to speak into the telephone, not to summon the ambulance that would have saved his father's life.†   (source)
  • And then it became harder to summon him, to smell his smell, to feel him lifting me up.†   (source)
  • A repairman was summoned and the leaky pipe was quickly replaced.†   (source)
  • One afternoon three weeks later, Ye Wenjie was summoned back to company headquarters from the logging camp.†   (source)
  • This was the point at which Arkady had arrived on the scene, having been summoned urgently by phone.†   (source)
  • We received one letter from the school district informing us that I had collected so many unexcused absences that my parents might be summoned before the school or even prosecuted by the city.†   (source)
  • But he summons the courage.†   (source)
  • I can't even summon the will to think about it.†   (source)
  • I imagined it beckoned the Muslim faithful to the mosque, much like bells summoned us Christians to church.†   (source)
  • She took a beat to compose herself, then summoned me over to confide that she was leaving in a week to work at a "real law office."†   (source)
  • He closed his eyes and allowed himself to summon the song that brought them together, the one Judy Garland sang in that movie.†   (source)
  • I would have to fill them with every good experience I could summon up for a man whose powerless arms and legs meant he could no longer make them happen by himself.†   (source)
  • Wincing in pain, he summoned all of his faculties and strength.†   (source)
  • Then that night, right before dinner, my grandfather summoned me into the front room.†   (source)
  • He peered down the corridor that led deeper into the Maze, as if expecting the creatures to arrive then, summoned by the sound of their name.†   (source)
  • Around this time, Marie-Laure's father is summoned upstairs to the director's office.†   (source)
  • You did not summon people like him.†   (source)
  • Here's what happened: I summoned up the courage to return to the Hab.†   (source)
  • When the total reached $18,000, two sheriff's deputies came to Sweet Georgia Brown's and served Joe with a summons.†   (source)
  • They had no right to do that, to summon her home and then cast her out.†   (source)
  • Finally, I summoned a firm voice, in which I said, "If I were always perfectly open and truthful, then most of the work of being sure that I agree with you on everything would be already done for you, wouldn't it?"†   (source)
  • He knocked on the door, summoning the correctional officer who would take Peter back to his cell, when suddenly the boy spoke.†   (source)
  • It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own.†   (source)
  • And will you be summoning the dead to you this haunted night or lighting a bonfire with your companions?†   (source)
  • I was upset and tired and just wanted to play Warspire The Summoning before going to bed with the TV on.†   (source)
  • "I am not accustomed to being summoned like a serving wench," she said icily.†   (source)
  • Mare Barrow, you have been summoned to Summerton.†   (source)
  • On the following Sunday, Nwoye passed and repassed the little red-earth and thatch building without summoning enough courage to enter.†   (source)
  • Can you imagine anything worse than not being able to go when Mr. Curtain summons you?†   (source)
  • At the base of the grand staircase, the captain summoned the other stewards.†   (source)
  • With dinner about to be served, this was hardly the moment to be summoning P.C. Vockins from the village.†   (source)
  • If you're absent twice the man in the office sends you a yellow summons to appear and explain yourself and if you're absent three times he sends The Posse, which is five or six big boys from your section who search the streets to make sure you're not out enjoying yourself when you should be on your knees at the Confraternity praying for the Chinese and other lost souls.†   (source)
  • At a summons from her mother, Tita helped her to dry herself and put on her warm clothes as quickly as possible, so she wouldn't catch cold.†   (source)
  • They obeyed the summons of the conch, partly because Ralph blew it, and he was big enough to be a link with the adult world of authority; and partly because they enjoyed the entertainment of the assemblies.†   (source)
  • Kit summoned the boldness to speak to her.†   (source)
  • It was good to be home, in spite of my worry about the summons from the theater.†   (source)
  • The most powerful men and women on Earth had summoned him.†   (source)
  • Eventually, his English manager, Mr. Hollick, summoned him to his bungalow for a "serious chat."†   (source)
  • This had about a hundred tiny flat press buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million "pages" could be summoned at a moment's notice.†   (source)
  • That feeling she used to have when she was sitting next to Park on the bus—that feeling that she was on base, that she was safe for the moment—she could summon it now.†   (source)
  • Artemis had summoned the Butlers to his study, and spoke to them now from behind a mini-lectern.†   (source)
  • One day my father summoned the courage to ask Schindler to hire my brother David, then fourteen, to work in his factory, and Schindler agreed.†   (source)
  • RON (summoning confidence): You know, Harry's boy Albus —said to me the other day that he thought you and I were married.†   (source)
  • She could summon up those memories by trying really hard.†   (source)
  • There was a great, seductive loneliness in the hum, a summons almost, like the call of the sea, and for the first time I understood the impulse that had driven my dad to cash out his bank account, pick up his shirts from the cleaners, gas up the car, and leave town without a word.†   (source)
  • He grabs one of its ladders, summons all of his strength, and pulls himself up.†   (source)
  • It took some nerve to go and see her without being summoned; to go with the sort of demands Roy was making seemed suicidal.†   (source)
  • It was my father, standing on my doorstep like some awful specter summoned by my hatefulness.†   (source)
  • Amy was in the bathroom and Adam wandered in that direction, summoned by her voice.†   (source)
  • Having reached the end of the alley, Quigly flashed Alyss a look, summoned a lighthearted tone, and declared duck to be perfectly awful.†   (source)
  • She was just about to summon up all her courage and go after him when she heard footsteps — rapid, firm footsteps, quick and impatient.†   (source)
  • Ambulances summoned.†   (source)
  • When we finally summoned the courage to pick him up, we found out why he was crying.†   (source)
  • He coded the comlog to summon crew clones to fetch the luggage, but lifted Father Hoyt himself.†   (source)
  • The coming part was not the problem; it was waiting in place until we summoned him that he could not get.†   (source)
  • But when Granny summoned me I couldn't very well ignore her, for she had more seniority in the okiya than anyone else.†   (source)
  • It was two in the afternoon when the familiar German whistle and the customary German yell were heard summoning everyone to the yard.†   (source)
  • Dear Little Book, This morning without warning, I was summoned to the principal's office, and my heart dropped when I saw Minerva there, too.†   (source)
  • Though substitute teachers at school always pause, looking apologetic when they arrive at his name on the roster, forcing Gogol to call out, before even being summoned, "That's me," teachers in the school system know not to give it a second thought.†   (source)
  • She hung up the phone and summoned my brother Richie to the kitchen, gave him carfare and explicit instructions: Tell Helen all is forgiven.†   (source)
  • An information specialist, someone who can shed light on the search he has undertaken, who can show our hero the truth, is summoned.†   (source)
  • When she speaks, she appears to be summoning all her strength to keep from lashing out.†   (source)
  • Instinctively I raised my armor, saw the person holding the gun was one of the people who had been following us on the concourse, just before Security had summoned us.†   (source)
  • He's missing the Final Summoning.†   (source)
  • And I don't take kindly to bein' summoned out here all the way from town.†   (source)
  • In Calumet a thousand ornate streetlamps stood in a swamp, where they did nothing but ignite the fog and summon auras of mosquitoes.†   (source)
  • You are summoned to the New York Provincial Congress for suspicion of aiding the enemy, Elihu.†   (source)
  • There by the bed lay my prison bag, packed and ready as it had been since the summons from the chief of police.†   (source)
  • She smiled a little in the darkness, his seed still trickling with slow warmth from between her slightly parted thighs, and her smile was both rueful and pleased, because the phrase her man summoned up a hundred feelings.†   (source)
  • He found the antenna too powerful, the magic it summoned too mesmerizing, as though he were eating a banquet of limitless food, stuffing himself, stuffing himself, until he felt dazed and sick, and so he had removed or hidden or restricted all but a few applications.†   (source)
  • That's when one of the attorneys told us that an elected official does not have to appear to answer a summons.†   (source)
  • I shall summon you to a meeting on the Renaissance.†   (source)
  • Piles of legal documents began arriving almost daily at Deborah's door: summonses and petitions and updates and motions.†   (source)
  • At first I thought he was another doctor, or someone summoned by the family to try to reason with me.†   (source)
  • A warlock summoned the Angel Raziel, who mixed some of his own blood with the blood of men in a cup, and gave it to those men to drink.†   (source)
  • Marcus reached deep inside himself, trying to summon some courage of his own.†   (source)
  • The only money I have is a tenner I borrowed from Cathy, and I need to make that last until I've summoned up the courage to ask my mother for a loan.†   (source)
  • His first paychecks would be so thoroughly consumed by the $1,426 monthly note on the new house his parents had bought for themselves that he'd finally summoned the nerve to tell them to sell the house.†   (source)
  • Petrov summoned up some spine.†   (source)
  • We were summoned to the school ground.†   (source)
  • The only drawback is that the owners of the baseball may misinterpret your intentions and summon the police.†   (source)
  • She looked everywhere for him, summoning all her senses, but her mother's elbow in her ribs brought her back to the pressing matter of the ceremony.†   (source)
  • But when we were finally summoned out of the surf, something new happened.†   (source)
  • But Luma summoned Christian over and told him he could rejoin the team so long as he understood that he was on probation.†   (source)
  • Stanton also summoned Lieutenant Lafayette C. Baker, one of his favorites, to leave New York for Washington.†   (source)
  • Lorenzo Daza received an urgent summons to the rectory, where he discovered the leak through which his iron regime was trickling.†   (source)
  • It took him a second to get his bearings and realise that it was the church bells summoning parishioners to morning service.†   (source)
  • I summoned my little chorus of voices.†   (source)
  • Jane thought about summoning her newest Irish maid, Bridie, who'd replaced Sally—Bridie was especially good at washing hair.†   (source)
  • He was so relieved not to be in jail that he didn't mind walking the four hours it took to summon the nerve to put his thumb out again.†   (source)
  • Quite good to make it official, mark of authority, like a summons.†   (source)
  • Summoning up my powers of persuasion, I banished all thoughts of angels—guardian, fallen, or otherwise—from my head.†   (source)
  • The following morning I was summoned to the dining hall.†   (source)
  • Basil's effusive prose summoned our audience: The BCMA will be launching from their Cape Coalwood this Saturday.†   (source)
  • Khromoi's assistant (Khromoi, the mess orderly, had an assistant whom he fed) went off to summon Barracks 6 to breakfast This was the building occupied by the infirm, who did not leave the zone.†   (source)
  • Robert now felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up to see his wife standing beside him, as though summoned by his thoughts.†   (source)
  • I summon Bree when dreams no longer satisfy, when gentle clouds of monotony smother thunder, when Kristina cries.†   (source)
  • Days before the Green Team selection process was scheduled to start, Adam was summoned to a meeting with the commanding officer of the training cadre.†   (source)
  • And he could not find himself, could not summon or concentrate enough of himself to make any sign at all.†   (source)
  • I run too, following the boys across the field to the schoolyard, where a loudspeaker is summoning us.†   (source)
  • And when a girl showed any hint of resistance, all the girls would be summoned to watch as the recalcitrant one was tied up and savagely beaten.†   (source)
  • He summoned the probationer, a young, nervous Eritrean girl.†   (source)
  • When he was ten, she brought him the gift of summoning that he might converse with the lesser gods of streams and lakes.†   (source)
  • After setting up camp, the chief summoned the guide and three of his strongest young hunters.†   (source)
  • one day, when we had just returned from the warehouse, I was summoned by the block secretary: A-7713?†   (source)
  • As she's watching me, I feel forced to summon it up on my computer screen, just to show I'm willing.†   (source)
  • She was finally being summoned across that vacuum, and her spirit rose instinctively to obey, but she held it back in fear of what it might meet there.†   (source)
  • Then Nancy said, "Listen," and hesitated, as if summoning nerve to make an outrageous remark.†   (source)
  • At the appointed hour, Miss Hastings ushered Jason into the conference room and summoned me to our monthly encounter with destiny.†   (source)
  • When I came to the next afternoon, after the carpet cleaners had finished their work, I was summoned into the kitchen, which had been closed off with plastic sheeting and heavily sprayed with institutional-strength air freshener.†   (source)
  • Then, summoning all his courage: "I need a hint."†   (source)
  • And how can you warn against big magic when you just summoned Lucinda?†   (source)
  • Even that last day, when he'd given up trying to rouse me from bed, I'd sat up those five minutes later as if something had summoned me.†   (source)
  • Come spring, a call came from Vera White's office summoning Barbara to a meeting at school.†   (source)
  • He, himself, didn't have it in day-to-day life, but he could summon it when it seemed essential.†   (source)
  • Shade Buckheath never entered the place after Deanie was carried in from the hastily summoned carriage Thursday night.†   (source)
  • He summoned every ounce of augmented strength that remained into tightening the wire, until it sliced through her palm and hit bone.†   (source)
  • Somehow, I knew not just that we needed to turn, but that the next element to be summoned would be water.†   (source)
  • TWO DAYS AFTER I BURY my parents, I am summoned to the offices of Edmund Hyde, Esquire, to hear the details of their estate.†   (source)
  • A stirring summons to renewed devotion to the cause of liberty, as strong and eloquent an appeal to the men in the ranks, "the guardians of America," as had yet been seen in print, appeared in the New England Chronicle, signed simply "A Freeman."†   (source)
  • These were her vertigo: she heard a sweet (almost joyous) summons to renounce her fate and soul.†   (source)
  • You look at Toots and see a speakeasy vet, dense of body, with slicked-back hair and a set of chinky eyes that summon up a warning in a hurry.†   (source)
  • I couldn't summon up the energy to answer him.†   (source)
  • Minutes later Ti Jean, Zanmi Lasante's chief handyman, appears out of the dark, summoning him back across Highway 3.†   (source)
  • I knocked softly on his door and heard him summon me.†   (source)
  • Once, they took off and were flying in formation when the control tower summoned them down.†   (source)
  • But this time the summons, the death I was called to, was personal.†   (source)
  • Your summons was pretty abrupt, son.†   (source)
  • These are all that you will need to summon and shape the energies around you.†   (source)
  • In the late hours of the night, after Baba Hajji had returned from work, after he had eaten his dinner, after the family had gathered in response to my summons, I entered the hall, making sure I was properly covered and respectful.†   (source)
  • I stop, summoning up my courage.†   (source)
  • They needed a lot of hands, so in the first week of August I was summoned to a volunteer meeting.†   (source)
  • He had never before been summoned for jury duty, and he could grudgingly admit to being somewhat excited.†   (source)
  • So this is not a minor underling whom Bobby has summoned.†   (source)
  • The Ring of the Enemy would leave its mark, too, leave him open to the summons.†   (source)
  • The alien who had just walked out of his room was also the man he felt passionately enough about to strike with all the fervor he could summon up.†   (source)
  • There was no need to summon a general gathering.†   (source)
  • Others were summoned as a means of penance, or to avenge a wrongdoing.†   (source)
  • Yet it's hard to imagine that giddy, empty girl with any hidden energies; how did she summon up that much feeling for anybody?†   (source)
  • But Elinor had heard voices in the garth, and she summoned me to learn Randoll's business.†   (source)
  • Eve was already dressed when the call came through summoning her to Cop Central.†   (source)
  • If only he could summon the last reserves of his strength from any fruit on the trees, from any life in the land.†   (source)
  • A doctor was summoned.†   (source)
  • Otis summoned all the strength he could and leaped out to free his nephew, only to be met by D'Ablo's elbow in his face.†   (source)
  • You responded to a summons on the same day.†   (source)
  • He tried to summon the clarity to concentrate.†   (source)
  • As if my thoughts summon him, Cain appears.†   (source)
  • Glass glanced over at Carter, summoning her anger and hatred for him to the surface, letting it boil her blood.†   (source)
  • And summoning all his strength, he threw himself into the air, headfirst.†   (source)
  • Then one night when I had fallen asleep while making notes for a new series of lectures, the phone summoned me to an emergency meeting at headquarters, and I left the house with feelings of dread.†   (source)
  • Undoubtedly if cracked, an alarm would be triggered; he was in a cell, waiting to be summoned.†   (source)
  • Judson had been summoned by the federal district attorney, William S. Holabird, also an appointee of President Martin Van Buren.†   (source)
  • When my father received the summons, he sent back the following reply: "Andizi, ndisaqula" (I will not come, I am still girding for battle).†   (source)
  • Why was I summoned before the glaze was ready to be transferred?†   (source)
  • Padre Esteban had been summoned to give Señor Alvarado's mother her last rites while the family's priest was out of town.†   (source)
  • After getting out point I was supposed to make, with bonus through others that could have waited, I guided chair to bedroom and was at once summoned to Prof's.†   (source)
  • She summoned her husband from his workshop by pulling vigorously on a ship's bell he had rigged up for this purpose, unpinned her hair, and led him by the wrist to their bedroom.†   (source)
  • An eastern view of the city and the Tiber was so deeply engraved in Alessandro's memory that he was able to summon it at will.†   (source)
  • Naomi finally summoned up her courage and shouted as loud as she could.†   (source)
  • Rearden pressed a button, summoning Miss Ives.†   (source)
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