All 50 Uses of
summon
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The Throne of Fire
- Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned.†
Chpt 1summoned = called forth; or called to come
- Sadie looked pretty silly with her hand and scroll on fire, like an overenthusiastic Statue of Liberty, but with her free hand she managed to summon her main offensive weapon—a five-foot-long staff carved with hieroglyphs.†
Chpt 2summon = call forth; or call to come
- I held out my hand, and another symbol blazed above my palm—a symbol I could always summon, the Eye of Horus.†
Chpt 2
- Just summon the boat!†
Chpt 2
- I summoned the Eye of Horus, and the spirit hissed.†
Chpt 2summoned = called forth; or called to come
- I turned to the sphinx and summoned a gateway.†
Chpt 4
- He hadn't quite mastered summoning a combat avatar, but he encased his fist in golden energy like a wrecking ball and punched the shabti.†
Chpt 5 *summoning = calling forth; or calling to come
- Now when he summoned hieroglyphs, they glowed red—the color of Set.†
Chpt 6summoned = called forth; or called to come
- I tried to summon my staff and wand, but as I may have mentioned, I'm rubbish at retrieving things from the Duat on short notice.†
Chpt 7summon = call forth; or call to come
- He lifted his head and made a deep barking sound to the left and right, as if calling out, summoning friends for dinner.†
Chpt 8summoning = calling forth; or calling to come
- You're going to summon cartoons?†
Chpt 8summon = call forth; or call to come
- I suppose my friends thought I'd summoned him by magic.†
Chpt 8summoned = called forth; or called to come
- We used Walt's amulet for Shu the air god to summon a burst of wind and jump to Waterloo Bridge.†
Chpt 9summon = call forth; or call to come
- Even with the warm clothes Bes had summoned for us, my teeth couldn't stop chattering.†
Chpt 9summoned = called forth; or called to come
- Sadie summoned her staff and pointed it at the nearest security camera.†
Chpt 10
- Some kind of summoning ritual.†
Chpt 10summoning = calling forth; or calling to come
- You know I need a sacrifice to summon such a major god.†
Chpt 10summon = call forth; or call to come
- The House of Life didn't allow mortals to summon gods.†
Chpt 10
- Hieroglyphs burned around the summoning circle.†
Chpt 10summoning = calling forth; or calling to come
- Menshikov didn't even look tired from the summoning.†
Chpt 10
- I wasn't sure I could bust through it, even if I could summon a combat avatar.†
Chpt 10summon = call forth; or call to come
- It usually means Hey, I'm going to summon a big nasty thing to kill you while I stand safely inside my circle and laugh!†
Chpt 10
- At first I thought we'd caught some luck, and Menshikov had summoned a monster with a rare genetic birth defect.†
Chpt 10summoned = called forth; or called to come
- Summoning a Divine Word to break the vase had taken so much energy, I felt as if I'd been digging holes in the hot sun.†
Chpt 11summoning = calling forth; or calling to come
- He said a word in Ancient Egyptian: "Heqat"—the command I always used to summon my staff.†
Chpt 11summon = call forth; or call to come
- He summoned this thing to kill us so we wouldn't blab about his plans to free Apophis.†
Chpt 11summoned = called forth; or called to come
- As we raced toward it, I saw black stone sphinxes on either side—lady sphinxes with gilded pharaoh crowns—but the only thing that mattered to me was that they could summon a portal.†
Chpt 11summon = call forth; or call to come
- I'm going skip over our travel preparations, how Sadie summoned Walt and explained the situation, how Bes and I said our farewells at dawn and rented a car from one of Bes's "reliable friends," and how that car broke down halfway to Cairo.†
Chpt 13summoned = called forth; or called to come
- I hadn't been able to summon it back.†
Chpt 13summon = call forth; or call to come
- And if you summoned him, you'll be put to death!†
Chpt 14summoned = called forth; or called to come
- He summoned Set.†
Chpt 14
- You may think But, Sadie, these were magical camels, summoned by one of Walt's amulets.†
Chpt 15
- So we summoned the magic camels, charmed a handful of sand to point the way to Bahariya, and set out across the desert.†
Chpt 15
- I'd never been good at summoning fire, but I managed to set the end of my staff ablaze.†
Chpt 16summoning = calling forth; or calling to come
- To free Apophis, you have to wake Ra, but you want to control the summoning, make sure Ra comes back old and weak.†
Chpt 17
- Those who summon the gods must be wiped out.†
Chpt 17summon = call forth; or call to come
- I saw you summon Set.†
Chpt 17
- Why take the risk of summoning Ra?†
Chpt 17summoning = calling forth; or calling to come
- Thoth, the god of knowledge, had once told us that we'd always have the power to summon a boat when we needed one, because we were the blood of the pharaohs.†
Chpt 18summon = call forth; or call to come
- Can you summon some?†
Chpt 19
- But how to summon them?†
Chpt 19
- Carter demonstrated his combat magic skill by summoning a bucket and bailing out water, while I concentrated on keeping the crew in line.†
Chpt 19summoning = calling forth; or calling to come
- I summon your ba to awaken the Great One, for I am—" My first near-fatal mistake: the scroll said something like insert your name here.†
Chpt 19summon = call forth; or call to come
- She summoned sheets of ice that probably matched her emotions, leaving several demon icebergs in our wake.†
Chpt 21summoned = called forth; or called to come
- I stepped off the boat and summoned the hawk god's avatar.†
Chpt 22
- Even if you summon it back to Ra, Apophis will still be freed!†
Chpt 22summon = call forth; or call to come
- I charged to protect her, while Desjardins summoned a whirlwind around his body and flew toward Vlad Menshikov.†
Chpt 22summoned = called forth; or called to come
- I glanced over and saw a cloud of hieroglyphs and red light swirling around them as the Chief Lector summoned Ma'at, and Apophis just as quickly dissolved his spells with Chaos.†
Chpt 22
- In the wrong hands, they could strengthen or even summon the being they represented, and a statue of Apophis was way too dangerous to play with.†
Chpt 22summon = call forth; or call to come
- Alyssa was summoning the powers of Geb to repair a massive hole the enemy had blasted in the far wall.†
Chpt 23summoning = calling forth; or calling to come
Definition:
to call to appear, come, or take action -- often used for official or serious situations, including legal notices or emotional/spiritual urges