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

This strikes us now-a-days as anything but a very solemn or a very momentous form of adjuration.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian

And added: "This is but an intimation Of more wicked adjuration," while he pointed to the second entrance, the inscription over which read: "Arbour of Wicked Vows."

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann

Whether this impassioned adjuration had any special effect upon the patient is uncertain, but as he opened his eyes, he smiled faintly in acknowledgment of the sympathetic words.

From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Boldrewood, Rolf

He was too cunning a man—too well versed in human nature—to attempt heroics with such a girl as Rhoda, and there was no enraptured catching of hands, no falling upon one knee, no passionate adjuration.

From The Vicar's People by Fenn, George Manville