All 18 Uses of
summon
in
Arrowsmith
- Dr. Stout summoned Clif, as president of the Freshmen.†
Chpt 3
- He summoned forth London laboratories, dinners on frosty evenings in Stockholm, walks on the Pincio with sunset behind the dome of San Pietro, extreme danger and overpowering disgust from excreta-smeared garments in an epidemic at Marseilles.†
Chpt 4
- She had been summoned home to Dakota, perhaps for months, on the ground that her mother was unwell, and he had, or thought he had, to see her daily.†
Chpt 8
- But the dean was not going to summon him at once; he was going to keep him waiting in torture, then execute him in public.†
Chpt 8
- Next day he was summoned to a special meeting of the University Council.
Chpt 12 *summoned = told to come
- In unbelievable simplicity he considered that, as his quarrel with Silva was not personal, he could still summon him, and this time he was justified.†
Chpt 12
- Hunziker summoned him to the office next day.†
Chpt 13
- Hunziker did his summoning very well indeed (unless it happened to be merely a stenographer).†
Chpt 13
- Once the ignition ceased and, while they awaited a garageman summoned by telephone, they viewed a dairy farm with an electrical milking machine.†
Chpt 17
- A few days after their arrival Martin was summoned to the telephone to hear a masculine voice rasping: "Hello.†
Chpt 20
- He was summoned into the reception-room of the department to explain to angry citizens why the garage next door to them should smell of gasoline; he went back to his cubbyhole to dictate letters to school-principals about dental clinics; he drove out to Swede Hollow to see what attention the food and dairy inspector had given to the slaughterhouses; he ordered a family in Shantytown quarantined; and escaped at last into the laboratory.†
Chpt 21
- That evening, when he was playing poker in his flat with Irving Watters, the school-clinic dentist, and a young doctor from the city clinic, the telephone bell summoned him to an excited but saccharine: "This is Orchid.†
Chpt 21
- Martin was reading this article, trying to realize that it was actually exposed in a fabulous New York magazine, with a million circulation, when Pickerbaugh summoned him.†
Chpt 22
- Next day he summoned Martin, and protested.†
Chpt 24
- No Pickerbaugh or Rouncefield could burst in here and drag him away to be explanatory and plausible and public; he would be free to work, instead of being summoned to the package-wrapping and dictation of breezy letters which men call work.†
Chpt 26
- V. For once Gottlieb did not amble into his laboratory but curtly summoned him.†
Chpt 27
- Whether it was the compulsion of McGurk or the demands of the public-spirited, or whether Gottlieb's own imagination aroused enough to visualize the far-off misery of the blacks in the canefields, he summoned Martin and remarked: "It comes to me that there is pneumonic plague in Manchuria and bubonic in St. Hubert, in the West Indies.†
Chpt 32
- The central was now demoralized by the plague, and when for two hours Martin had tried to have Leora summoned, he gave up.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(summon) to call forthThe exact meaning of summon can depend upon its context. For example:
- "summon to court" -- officially demand that someone appear in court (call them to court)
- "summon the team to a meeting" -- call upon the team members to attend a meeting
- "summon help" -- call others to come and help
- "summon her courage" -- call forth her courage from within