adjuration

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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

"Not too many of you," was his final adjuration, as, giving me a look, he slipped out into the hall.

From The Amethyst Box by Green, Anna Katherine

To the friendly adjuration of John of Chlum he replied with tears that he would willingly revoke anything in which he could be proved to have erred.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

Muttering an angry adjuration at the ghostly oarsman, he threw himself upon the ground.

From The White Squaw by Reid, Mayne

She went away a few minutes afterwards, stopping for awhile to exchange greetings with Ann Packet, to whom she gave her address—a back street in Southwark Bridge Road—after much adjuration.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by Robinson, Frederick William