All 6 Uses of
summon
in
Something Wicked This Way Comes
- It's a long way back to sunset, a far way on to dawn, so you summon all the fool things of your life, the stupid lovely things done with people known so very well who are now so very dead — And wasn't it true, had he read it somewhere, more people in hospitals die at 3 a.m. than at any other time….†
Part 1
- Boys have never been known to go straight up to houses to ring bells to summon forth friends.
Part 1 *summon = call
- Come alive! yelled Mr Dark's mouth, which no one heard but Jim, reading lips, read thunderous loud in his mind, and Will the same, Come alive! willing the old man to five, start up, tick, hum, work juice, summon spit, ungum spirit, melt wax soul…… 'He's dead!'†
Part 1
- Their cries and whines and utterances of vague but excruciating excitements sounded in his husky summoning: " 'Boys?†
Part 2
- She on his tide, let her body be summoned by every sibilant hiss of his pain.†
Part 2
- Old man. feel your hurt…… " If he could fling the hand, the pain, out the window where it might lie beating like a heart, summoning her away, tricked, to go seek this awful fire.†
Part 2
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