adjuration

But there was no longer any reason to remain under that adjuration.

He exhausted every adjuration, her child's welfare and his own.

This adjuration recurs with great force to my mind at the present moment.

They are more in the business of rage, lament, warning and adjuration.

After the adjuration he shall partake of bread and salt.

Troy's adjuration seemed to drop on him like a rockfall.

That adjuration stretched him like: the tightening of a string to its final pitch.

A soft rushing noise of wind answered his adjuration.

Looking even nearer, I saw that there was some kind of holy adjuration, too, engraved in the rough metal.

Then, just to make sure, I hammered the last few legible words of the holy adjuration into obscurity.

She did so, and he repeated his adjuration; but still there was only knocking, and no articulate sound.

I asked my sister Nancy (then about fifteen years old) whether she was not afraid when my father used that adjuration?

Argument and adjuration were lost on these dastards.

To this simple inscription, I merely added the adjuration, "Friend, come!

At all events, I adjure him, if there be any power in the adjuration of a dying man, to burn it."

I wrote my last-will; concluding it by a petition and adjuration, that the paper should be sent to its address.

The second thing had to do with that single mute adjuration which had been mounted on the easel.

As though in answer to this question, Jamie's head lifted suddenly, and he grasped my arm in adjuration to be still.

Then I walked down the aisle, listening with one ear to the florist's adjuration to walk slowly and smoothly.

But Vokal seemed to hear him not, or was too frenzied to obey his adjuration.

The corn is indeed cut, but I must now, by private adjuration and address, bind up the scattered sheaves."

He narrowed his eyes at Jamie in a silent adjuration to keep his wife in better order.

Emerson repeated his adjuration to the Prince of Evil and stepped boldly forward.

The Veiled Woman rose at this adjuration.