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  • Your father turned sixteen and invoked the Noncomplying Families Act to separate himself from his family.   (source)
    invoked = called into use
  • She invoked the Love Laws.   (source)
    invoked = cited
  • When I woke up, Dede's voice was in my ear, invoking the Lord's name.   (source)
    invoking = citing
  • At lunch Manners Mistress said, "Don't rap your knuckles on the table, Ella. The king would be ashamed of you." She frequently invoked King Jerrold.   (source)
    invoked = cited
  • She had conquered her fear of the ghosts Clara would invoke and the mice in the countryside, but earthquakes shook her to her bones and long after they had passed she was still trembling.   (source)
    invoke = bring forth
  • She invoked Lord Shiva's name, held her breath, and cut above each clamp, bracing herself for something terrible.   (source)
    invoked = called upon
  • "No one tried to keep Tom imprisoned in Bombay," I say, invoking my brother's name as a last resort.   (source)
    invoking = calling to mind
  • All the way through I had expected my parents to stop her, invoking, if nothing else, the nearness of the neighbors.   (source)
    invoking = citing
  • I would rewhisper all the words and sounds I had messed up earlier that morning, trying to invoke how the one girl who always wore a baby-blue cardigan would speak.   (source)
    invoke = bring out
  • She told them about Thomas Garrett, and the food and the warmth of the welcome that awaited them in Wilmington, and thought of the many different times she had invoked the image of the tall, powerfully built Quaker with the kind eyes, to reassure herself, as well as a group of runaways who stumbled along behind her.   (source)
    invoked = called to mind
  • Introducing herself, she invoked the name of Stanley Koteks.   (source)
    invoked = cited or called upon for validation
  • That strikes me as an unfair attempt to invoke the spirit of Sigmund Freud: Oedipus and Electra in one being, out to destroy all its parents, the authors of every one of its tensions, anxieties, hang-ups, burned into its impressionable psyche at a young and defenseless age.   (source)
    invoke = cite or call upon
  • Mary raised her eyes to heaven: invoking the gods as witnesses to her despair.   (source)
    invoking = calling upon
  • Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.   (source)
    invoke = bring forth
  • When in the market-place you toilers of the sea and fields and vineyards meet the weavers and the potters and the gatherers of spices, — Invoke then the master spirit of the earth, to come into your midst and sanctify the scales and the reckoning that weighs value against value.   (source)
    invoke = call upon
  • Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.   (source)
    invokes = calls upon
  • I always found it unsettling to invoke religion in anything having to do with Las Vegas, a place that I'm quite sure the Prophet Muhammad would not have approved of.†   (source)
  • The software attempted to decipher any signal whose recognizability rating was above B. During the entire time that the Red Coast Project had been running, it had never been invoked even once in real use.†   (source)
  • Today, even remembering that period long enough to write it down invokes an intense, indescribable anxiety in me.†   (source)
  • Dumbledore invoked an ancient magic, to ensure the boy's protection as long as he is in his relations' care.†   (source)
  • His very size invokes them all.†   (source)
  • The room went dead quiet, people looking at Aunt Susie as if she'd invoked the name of some evil spirit.†   (source)
  • Caroline joined my father in invoking the revocation clause.†   (source)
  • "Release the drones!" she roared in a voice meant to invoke and mock some witchy villain.†   (source)
  • That means that Peter's going to have to invoke his right to an attorney himself.'†   (source)
  • The last brick was set in place as the vicar, having put his glasses back on, made the celebrated pronouncement—man and wife together—and invoked the Trinity after which his church was named.†   (source)
  • There were the regulars, like Ruth, and the Gilberts, but more and more the group was filled out by kids from the high school who, as time went by, knew only my name and even that only as a large dark rumor invoked as a warning to any student that might prove too much a loner.†   (source)
  • Some of us have found it interesting that many of the connections he invokes are dead.†   (source)
  • Before the slavers could gather their senses, Eragon scrambled out of the commotion and raised his hands, invoking words in the ancient language.†   (source)
  • Do not invoke the titan lord's name, Percy.†   (source)
  • Yet, the Dean invoked an obscure rule that left expulsion on the table.†   (source)
  • So as we would think of it, they were drawing a connection between the printed letter on the page and the neural connections that had to be invoked in order to pronounce it.†   (source)
  • And the fetish most treasured by mothers, against dysentery, contains a particle of all the things invoked by the word nzolo: you must dig and dry the grub and potatoes, bind them with a thread from your wedding cloth, and have them blessed in a fire by the nganga doctor.†   (source)
  • In March, with just half a year remaining until the dedication, he invoked the "czar" clause of his construction contracts.†   (source)
  • Was it because I invoked his mother's memory?†   (source)
  • A British admiral suggested we invoke the old slave-trading treaty.†   (source)
  • On Saturday, October 21, they were set to face their toughest competition of the season—the Athens United Gold Valiants, a team that had not lost a game and that had put some teams away by scores that nearly invoked the league's mercy rule.†   (source)
  • Now someone is invoking his name ..."But who?"†   (source)
  • When the train pulls out of the station, one of these boys lights a match, invoking the wrath of Mr. Curran, who boxes him about the head and shouts, for the whole car to hear, that he's a worthless good-for-nothing clod of dirt on God's green earth and will never amount to anything.†   (source)
  • It was Jamis' doing—he invoked the tahaddi al-burhan.†   (source)
  • Among this group the act is viewed as comprehensible and consistent with the rest of the cultural pattern.... If this is true, it follows that the individual who in particular situations, usually of distress, wishes to convey information about his difficulties to others, does not have to invent a communicational medium de novo.... The individual within the "attempted suicide subculture" can perform an act which carries a preformed meaning; all he is required to do is invoke it.†   (source)
  • In the early days, during those conversations where he had felt himself to be at sea, surrounded by people wealthier and better connected than he would ever be, by people utterly at ease in the world he was so desperately trying to join, he would sometimes allude, though never directly, to a distant but important lineage, invoking false ancestors to stand behind him and lend support.†   (source)
  • I just needed to stay focused on the ritual itself, and remember the amazing feelings that filled me whenever I invoked the five elements.†   (source)
  • And we can take no risks, especially since you invoked the name of Deedee.†   (source)
  • "She invoked Izzat," Mazen says.†   (source)
  • There seemed to be no disrespect in invoking the holy name of Allah while unwittingly spitting bits of food all about.†   (source)
  • Max didn't know how to invoke anything as complex as a true curse.†   (source)
  • She had invoked the Mother's mercy, appealing to the natural sympathy of one woman for another, but the three shriveled sepias must have put their womanhood aside when they spoke their vows.†   (source)
  • When he encountered a wave of enemy resistance to this attack, he stuck to his position without regard for his safety or reputation and gallantly invoked the law of supply and demand.†   (source)
  • Westernized enough to extend his hand to a foreigner for a shake without invoking Allah, Janjungpa steered Mortenson through the narrow alleys between Khane's mud and stone homes, taking his elbow as they crossed irrigation ditches running ripe with waste.†   (source)
  • There is a part of books specifically designed for the very long and the very boring, and that part is called "The Appendix," which is precisely where one can find a semi-exhaustive explanation of the math invoked herein.†   (source)
  • There were basically two varieties of tattoos in Thailand: khawm designs meant to invoke the power to love, and sak designs meant to invoke the power against death.†   (source)
  • "I am for the prisoners at bar," he began, then invoked the line from the Marchese di Beccaria.†   (source)
  • For her embroidery design she had invoked the Five Poisons—centipedes, toads, scorpions, snakes, and lizards.†   (source)
  • But truth be known, it is the Devil, for who else invoked in me such a lie as I told him that night, having never had such visions of him with others.†   (source)
  • And Leavitt had invoked his rule when he saw the reception Karp and others received.†   (source)
  • A prisoner brought to trial can defend himself only if there is an objective principle of justice recognized by his judges, a principle upholding his rights, which they may not violate and which he can invoke.†   (source)
  • I doubt if anything more than a suspended sentence would be invoked against a man of your age and physical condition, however.†   (source)
  • As the eldest male present—Grampa is indoors sleeping—Uncle Chisulo delivers a formal greeting and invokes the ancestors, praying that our meeting and celebration will be a blessing to all.†   (source)
  • As a precaution, the demon invoked various detection spells, fearing an unseen assailant.†   (source)
  • And he needed much divine support, for it was never an easy thing explaining away tragedy by invoking God's will.†   (source)
  • It was dangerous to have a sadist in the barracks, especially one who justified his excesses by religiously invoking the sacrosanct authority of the plebe system.†   (source)
  • Invoking his state's Revolutionary motto, Sic Semper Tyrannis, a young Virginia officer filled letters to his mother with comparisons of the North's "war of subjugation against the South" to "England's war upon the colonies."†   (source)
  • Speaking of the religiosity of racists, Maritain observes: God is invoked ...and He is invoked against the God of the spirit, of intelligence and love— excluding and hating this God.†   (source)
  • He droned on insultingly, invoking Lincoln, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dale Carnegie, Spinoza, Thomas Edison, Sigmund Freud.†   (source)
  • The bush was full of spirits; in the bush hovered all the protecting presences of a man's ancestors; and in this room all the spirits of those dead masks, the powers they invoked, all the religious dread of simple men, seemed to have been concentrated.†   (source)
  • But she had only to face the double-house in her meditations, and then she could invoke Cornelia.†   (source)
  • She invoked Section 24 of the statute.
    invoked = cited
  • And Lord Apollo, son of Zeus, replied: "Come, sir, you too invoke the gods, the undying, the ever young!"   (source)
    invoke = call upon
  • I began to chant, invoking my old powers as the god of plagues.†   (source)
  • Wherever there is a party, my presence is invoked.†   (source)
  • But I wasn't going to invoke the devil's name in my own yard.†   (source)
  • I invoke the rite ....at sunset when the dark shall cover him.†   (source)
  • Also, when you invoke it, you can get a little ...Thor-like.†   (source)
  • We don't have time to wander the halls forever, and Ra will only appear if we invoke him.†   (source)
  • In desperation he combined the only word that might work,ethgri, or "invoke," witharget.†   (source)
  • A mangled genie invoked by a modern lamp.†   (source)
  • I found a way around that by invoking his wife.†   (source)
  • She invoked the dawn and the rise of a new day.†   (source)
  • I wondered if I could invoke the Peace of Frey.†   (source)
  • The guards either didn't hear him or didn't mind him invoking the common greeting.†   (source)
  • He just had to invoke Adidas, the goddess of off-brand shoes.†   (source)
  • He would have invoked the trialeven if I had complied with his demands .†   (source)
  • The seven vows were made, the seven blessings invoked, and the seven promises exchanged.†   (source)
  • For starters, short of invoking emergency powers, I don't run this country alone.†   (source)
  • So when we invoke the honor system you finally tell the truth.†   (source)
  • I will uncover and invoke inclinations and aversions.†   (source)
  • Pippa shrieks, invoking the phrase that every English mother tells her daughter about carnal acts.†   (source)
  • But you invoked me so strongly ...that you allowed me to appear ...if only for a moment.†   (source)
  • Only this time, he was the patient, and it was my heuristic I would invoke.†   (source)
  • Don't press false charges on me, Max McDaniels, hoping to invoke the Old Magic.†   (source)
  • This should be the room where the priests invoked the most powerful spirits.†   (source)
  • Lincoln was melancholy to begin with, and if any place invoked a smile, surely it wouldn't be a stone's throw away from the place where someone shot him in the head.†   (source)
  • "—the president has now declared a national emergency, invoking the Stanford Act to bring the military in for domestic—" I'd only gone outside the front door to our building.†   (source)
  • He would not have invoked the names of his children or a desire to bequeath to us something substantial.†   (source)
  • An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council has been convened, but China is refusing to attend while the US has invoked Article Five of the NATO common defense treaty.†   (source)
  • "I invoke the amtal rule," Jamis said.†   (source)
  • Imprint her on his memory To ensure that when he thought of her, the child that he invoked would be accurate.†   (source)
  • Wolves, I invoke you!†   (source)
  • I invoke the silence on her!†   (source)
  • I no longer had the power to invoke Set's secret name, but I still felt as if I'd gotten his attention.†   (source)
  • Even when it wasn't Margaret Kochamma who served him, he sought her out with his eyes, and they exchanged secret smiles that invoked the joint memory of their Laugh.†   (source)
  • Despite all of the evidence presented at our hearing showing that Walter had nothing to do with the Pittman murder, the local press invoked the case to scare up more fear about Walter.†   (source)
  • I invoke the name of Ra,†   (source)
  • The hull was inlaid with precious metals—copper, silver, and gold designs showing pictures of the boat's journey through the Duat, and hieroglyphs invoking the power of the sun.†   (source)
  • Almost a prayer ...but was it the god he was invoking, the Father Above whose towering gilded likeness glimmered in the candlelight across the sept?†   (source)
  • But during the elves' Blood-oath Celebration, wherein they celebrate the pact between the Riders and the dragons, his wound was healed by the spectral dragon the elves invoke upon the conclusion of the festival.†   (source)
  • The trench looked easy enough to jump, but I wasn't anxious to do so because inside the room, the entire floor was carved with red hieroglyphs—all spells invoking the power of Isfet, chaos.†   (source)
  • The witches' curse is invoked!†   (source)
  • I say, invoking the name of those gruesome knights who lured us to their cathedral in hopes of killing us and taking the magic for themselves.†   (source)
  • It was rash of Az Sweldn rak Anhuin to invoke the old ways; such a thing has not been done since the last of the clan wars....Until they rescind their oath, you must guard against their treachery, whether it be for a year or a century.†   (source)
  • Every family says these things at New Year, incorporating special dishes that invoke these wishes—knowing that this is exactly what they are.†   (source)
  • Sloan resisted with much weeping and wailing and grinding of his teeth, but no matter how vigorously he struggled, he had no choice but to obey whenever Eragon invoked his true name.†   (source)
  • She struggled against him, until they got tired of beating her and gave her a short break, which she used to invoke the understanding spirits of her grandmother, so that they would help her die.†   (source)
  • Errtu desired to wield the relic and, therefore, would not dare to oppose Kessell and invoke Crenshinibon's wrath.†   (source)
  • And I beg that you will not invoke it.†   (source)
  • Invoke emergency powers.†   (source)
  • "Consent is unanimous," he stated, "and the gentlemen members are placed on notice that I will invoke special rule fourteen at the next outburst.†   (source)
  • Desertion, naturally, is one of the "thirty-one crash landings" but the Army doesn't invoke the death penalty for it unless there are special circumstances, such as "in the face of the enemy" or something else that turns it from a highly informal way of resigning into something that can't be ignored.†   (source)
  • Adams never invoked the law and this despite the urging of Secretary of State Pickering, who did indeed favor massive deportations.†   (source)
  • I would say to give yourself to or for any Scab woman is no less offensive than embracing the Shataiki and would invoke Elyon s anger.†   (source)
  • Don't invoke the superorganism.†   (source)
  • I showed up only when necessary and never bothered to learn talk-talk rules—seemed to be equal parts common politeness and ways in which chairman could invoke magic to do it his (her) way.†   (source)
  • Her father forbade her to read the future in cards and to invoke ghosts and mischievous spirits that annoyed the rest of the family and terrorized the servants, but Nivea understood that the more limitations and shocks her daughter was subjected to the madder she became, and decided to leave her in peace with her spiritualist tricks, her fortune-telling games and her cavernous silence, and did her best to love her unconditionally and accept her as she was.†   (source)
  • Even the laughter of Irishmen was sad, they said, shrugging their shoulders as though they had invoked some immutable law of nature.†   (source)
  • She'd be cut off without a cent. If you weren't slapped in leg irons and hanged in Newgate first," I say, invoking the name of London's most notorious prison.†   (source)
  • Tired of invoking God through the threelegged table and a cloud of hashish, he had decided to seek Him in a region less harsh than his native land.†   (source)
  • Pig's eyes had glazed over with that feral, gauzy look he assumed whenever he invoked the image of Theresa in front of sacrilegious strangers in the room.†   (source)
  • If that's not the explanation, then I must invoke a disinterested God who leaves us to our own devices, neither causing nor preventing tornadoes or pestilence, but a God who will now and then stick his thumb on the spinning wheel so that a father who put a continent between himself and his sons should find himself in the same room as one of them.†   (source)
  • I didn't invoke you.†   (source)
  • She tortured herself with the idea that they might capture him alive, and invoked the spirit of her grandmother to ask her to prevent that from happening.†   (source)
  • Screw your courage to the sticking place," I said aloud, invoking Ghosh, who never got to see what I was seeing, never heard the superorganism.†   (source)
  • She invoked the spirits of the days of the three-legged table and her grandmother's restless sugar bowl, and all the spirits capable of bending the course of events, but they appeared to have abandoned her, for the van continued on its way.†   (source)
  • I knew enough Arabic to understand that he'd just invoked a gynecological term that made reference to my mother.†   (source)
  • She lifted Sister Mary Joseph Praise's left breast, hesitated for a moment, invoked God's name again, then plunged the needle between the ribs and into the heart.†   (source)
  • When she had nearly achieved her goal, her Grandmother Clara, whom she had invoked so many times to help her die, appeared with the novel idea that the point was not to die, since death came anyway, but to survive, which would be a miracle.†   (source)
  • They had rescued a wineskin from among the ruins, which Pedro Garcfa divided three ways: a third to wash the injured man's body, a third for Esteban to drink, and the other third he drank parsimoniously himself before beginning to set Esteban's bones, one by one, patiently and calmly, pulling here, adjusting there, putting each one back in its proper place, splinting them, wrapping them in strips of sheet to keep them immobile, mumbling litanies to the healing saints, invoking good luck and the Virgin Mary, and putting up with the screams and blasphemies of Esteban Trueba, without ever altering his beatific blind man's expression.†   (source)
  • Hemlatha ran over at this summons, saying "Shiva, Shiva," invoking the name of her personal deity, the God whom others thought of as the Destroyer, but who she believed was also the Transformer, the one who could make something good come out of something terrible.†   (source)
  • "And Shiva, for Shiva," she said, naming the child with the circular hole in his scalp, the last to breathe, the child she had labored over, a child all but dead until she had invoked Lord Shiva's name, at which point he took his first gasp.†   (source)
  • BUT JUST AT THE MOMENT she was thinking these thoughts, anticipating her arrival in Addis Ababa ....she found herself suddenly invoking Lord Shiva's name: the plane, the DC-3, the trustworthy camel of the frontier sky, was shuddering as if mortally wounded.†   (source)
  • Under his breath, he called upon the more notable of the current fertility deities, invoking them in terms of their most prominent Attributes.†   (source)
  • Gennaro, even less enlightening than Angelo was, invokes the protection of God and Saint Narcissus for Niccolo, and they all ride on.†   (source)
  • Man names these dreams and thinks to have captured the essence, not knowing that he invokes the unreal.†   (source)
  • Then again, there have been times when I have forgiven you and invoked the seven Rishi to bring your image before me, so that I looked upon you as you went about your day, and it was almost as though we walked together once again.†   (source)
  • "I want my calendar first," he pouted, invoking his privilege against the evil hour.†   (source)
  • His embattled Swiss bounded ponderously from crag to crag, invoking it in windy speeches.†   (source)
  • We went back to the room we had come from to invoke the aid of coffee and cognac.†   (source)
  • When Keating invoked his contract, he was told: "All right, go ahead, try to sue the government.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, as though in inverse ratio to the vanishing voice, the invoked ghost of the man whom she could neither forgive nor revenge herself upon began to assume a quality almost of solidity, permanence.†   (source)
  • Music, he thought, the promise of the music he had invoked, the sense of it made real—there it was before his eyes—he did not see it—he heard it in chords—he thought that there was a common language of thought, sight and sound—was it mathematics?†   (source)
  • Granny prayed and invoked the blessings of God for each of us, asking Him to guide us if it was His will, and then she told God that "my poor old husband lies sick this beautiful morning" and asked God, if it was His will, to heal him.†   (source)
  • When she said this, sometimes, it was in the territory of seriousness where distinctions of sex do not exist; the power invoked is too great for that.†   (source)
  • He invoked their help.†   (source)
  • These were the people, no doubt, whom one often saw wandering forlornly in the dusty town at all hours of the day, silently invoking nightfalls known to them alone and the daysprings of their happier land.†   (source)
  • And the questions they do ask are, of course, unanswerable; for they do not know the future, and what the future will be depends very largely on just those choices which they now invoke the future to help them to make.†   (source)
  • She invoked all these, hotter and hotter, especially from the time I began to go with Jimmy Klein, and she tried to tighten house discipline, inspected my nails and shirt collar before school, governed my table conduct more sharply, and threatened to lock me out nights if I stayed in the streets after ten.†   (source)
  • Whatever the truth of all that was said in the little book on the Steppenwolf about "suicides," no one could forbid me the satisfaction of invoking the aid of coal gas or a razor or revolver, and so sparing myself this repetition of a process whose bitter agony I had had to drink often enough, surely, and to the dregs.†   (source)
  • When they had left him, the boy tried to picture them lulled in the dulcet tranquillity they so often invoked.†   (source)
  • There was no mysticism, no invoking of God, merely a passionate identification of all present with a will to right wrongs.†   (source)
  • Though the aunt was gone, she still managed to bequeath and invoke upon each of these expeditions something of the old flavor of grim sortie, more than ever now against a foe who did not know that he was at war.†   (source)
  • Cynthia!" he howled suddenly, invoking the memory of his first wife, the gaunt tubercular spinstress whose life, it was said, his conduct had done nothing to prolong, but whom he was fond of supplicating now, realizing the hurt, the anger he caused to Eliza by doing so.†   (source)
  • Yes, the body, the face, with the right name and memory, even the correct remembering of what and whom (except myself and was that not but further proof?) it had left behind and returned to: but not the ogre; villain true enough, but a mortal fallible one less to invoke fear than pity: but no ogre; mad true enough, but I told myself; Why should not madness be its own victim also?†   (source)
  • Therefore I obey none of its regulations, and I insist that you never invoke them in front of me!†   (source)
  • My Lord, my Lord, you invoke in your defense things which accuse you more strongly.†   (source)
  • It was Dinah's mode of invoking the domestic Muses.†   (source)
  • Ben-Hur's countenance and voice changed with the feeling invoked.†   (source)
  • The reverend gentleman is asked to invoke a blessing on a table loaded with luxuries.†   (source)
  • From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favourable winds.†   (source)
  • There was no protecting arm of the law for me to invoke.†   (source)
  • He had known that she would pass from his hands and eyes, but had thought she could live in his mind, not realizing that the very fact that we have loved the dead increases their unreality, and that the more passionately we invoke them the further they recede.†   (source)
  • This waste of double aims, this seeking to satisfy two unreconciled ideals, has wrought sad havoc with the courage and faith and deeds of ten thousand thousand people,—has sent them often wooing false gods and invoking false means of salvation, and at times has even seemed about to make them ashamed of themselves.†   (source)
  • We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother spirit is invoked.†   (source)
  • The latter perceiving thro' the glass that the weight of men and metal would be heavily against her, invoking her light heels, crowded sail to get away.†   (source)
  • The old chap invokes Heaven's blessing; the mother and all the girls then at home send their love....No, there is nothing much in that yellow frayed letter fluttering out of his cherishing grasp after so many years.†   (source)
  • I admired them, had fancies about them, for we could all profit in a degree, especially when they loomed through the dusk, by the grandeur of their actual battlements; yet it was not at such an elevation that the figure I had so often invoked seemed most in place.†   (source)
  • Health we must have; and health is proportion; so that when a man comes into your room and says he is Christ (a common delusion), and has a message, as they mostly have, and threatens, as they often do, to kill himself, you invoke proportion; order rest in bed; rest in solitude; silence and rest; rest without friends, without books, without messages; six months' rest; until a man who went in weighing seven stone six comes out weighing twelve.†   (source)
  • Yes, she was carried off in the Prison Act, at the moment when she was invoking the aid of the angels; but I doubt if she was carried off by an angel.†   (source)
  • The lawyer, who had taken up the matter purely out of friendship to the young man, and almost against his will, invoked every consideration of justice, delicacy, honour, and even plain figures; in vain, the ex-patient of the Swiss lunatic asylum was inflexible.†   (source)
  • And then, so strong an element of hypocrisy is there in even the most sincere of men, who cast off, while they are talking to anyone, the opinion they actually hold of him and will express when he is no longer there, my family joined with M. Vinteuil in deploring Swann's marriage, invoking principles and conventions which (all the more because they invoked them in common with him, as though we were all thorough good fellows of the same sort) they appeared to suggest were in no way infringed at Montjouvain.†   (source)
  • It was not surprising that Herr Settembrini, invoking the dignity of man in sterling words, spoke out against the brutal practice, both from a pedagogic and juridical point of view; nor was it any more surprising, though perhaps it was astounding simply because of the gloomy brazenness of his words, that Naphta spoke out in favor of the bastinado.†   (source)
  • Imagine the tragedy last June, if Helen and Paul Wilcox had been poor people, and couldn't invoke railways and motor-cars to part them.†   (source)
  • A fat old man and dirty and unvirtuous was the Doc; his grammar was doubtful, his vocabulary alarming, and his references to his rival, good Dr. Needham, were scandalous; yet he invoked in Martin a vision of making chemicals explode with much noise and stink and of seeing animalcules that no boy in Elk Mills had ever beheld.†   (source)
  • He invoked then the name of science.†   (source)
  • I mean to teach them in these parts that law is law, and that there is a man here who does not fear to invoke it.†   (source)
  • I should not have been prompted, by stress of need, by desperation of mind—I scarce know what to call it—to invoke such further aid to intelligence as might spring from pushing my colleague fairly to the wall.†   (source)
  • Alfred in his funeral ode on the victor of Waterloo ventures not to call him the greatest soldier of all time, tho' in the same ode he invokes Nelson as "the greatest sailor since our world began.†   (source)
  • He invoked the favour of the Most High upon that journey, implored His blessing on men's toil and on the secret purposes of their hearts; the steamer pounded in the dusk the calm water of the Strait; and far astern of the pilgrim ship a screw-pile lighthouse, planted by unbelievers on a treacherous shoal, seemed to wink at her its eye of flame, as if in derision of her errand of faith.†   (source)
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