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a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service- The Supreme Court held that a religious invocation is allowed because it has a secular purpose; i.e., to solemnize the event .
- Any invocations must be done so they do not advance any particular faith or belief.
- At its close the Mormon lifted his face and arms in characteristic invocation.Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
- When I chuckled at the older woman's invocation of the parable, she laughed, too.Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
- The only response the other two magicians evinced at the death of their companion was to increase the speed of their invocation.Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
- Not everyone received a response from the gods, but Eugenides never doubted his invocation would be answered.Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
- The DRUMMER intones under the PRAISE-SINGER'S invocations.Wole Soyinka -- Death and the King's Horseman
- It was a time of struggle between beast-demons on the one side and the old prayers and invocations on the other.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- Drawing himself upright, he gathered together what power he had left and parted his lips to deliver the invocation.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- Saint George!" said the Black Knight, striking down a man at every invocation; "have we traitors here?"Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
- This he alledges to prove Invocation of Saints departed.Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan
- The tumult increased, the invocation of Mrs. Moore continued, and people who did not know what the syllables meant repeated them like a charm.E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
- If you want that device to work, perhaps you should try a musical invocation.Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
- His invocation was brief and punchy, and for a second I thought we were getting back on the high road to right action.Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- In the last act when she began the invocation to the angels, she made all the members of the audience feel as though they too had wings.Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
- The pressure returned to Eragon's legs as soon as Oromis mouthed his inaudible invocation.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- Our voices were like prayers lifted up and offered as invocations to the house, and the house itself was an invocation to slower, more cautious days.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- Sophie heard Lotte wake with a groan, muttering disconnected syllabics, perhaps some matutinal invocation to Jehovah, in a sepulchral Rhenish accent.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- The instant Neferet began speaking the invocation I felt the air change.P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked
- He appealed to her: "Joy in this armor, goddess, first on Olympos, first of immortals in our invocation!Homer -- The Iliad
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