adjuration

Example Sentences

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New York's volcanic little Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia is paternally proud of his neat fleet of silver streamlined, street-cleaning trucks, which bear the adjuration: Our City�Yours and Mine�Keep It Clean.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally, Lem wound up his appeal with a stern adjuration.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

Here there was a fierce adjuration from the Malays in the other boat, which Hilton obeyed to the extent of speaking in a lower tone.

From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville

Yet at times, rising upon the flood of feeling, he shot out a solemn adjuration or asserted an opinion with a fiery emphasis that electrified the audience into applause.

From From the Easy Chair, series 3 by Curtis, George William

But this time, too, her adjuration failed to awaken an echo.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann