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

Barnes was moved to adjuration: "I'll take my Bible oath, your Grace, that the Duchess got into the carriage outside Cane and Wilson's."

From Amusement Only by Marsh, Richard

What an accusation could not effect, an adjuration shall.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

This solemn adjuration was answered by as solemn assurances to obey me in whatever I required of them.

From A Wife's Duty A Tale by Opie, Amelia Alderson

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