Use summons in a sentence
Sentences ending with summons
- He, he obeyed your summons. [10]
- And she couldn't very well refuse his summons. [9]
- Without waiting for the king's reply he left the tent, hastened to the banqueting tent, and, as we know, Rameses and the princess had at once attended to his summons. [10]
- Captain Daniel was the first the old gentleman asked to see when visitors were permitted him, and you may be sure the faithful soldier was below stairs waiting for the summons. [9]
- Dion, with a presentiment that misfortune was threatening himself and his dear ones, obeyed the summons. [10]
- The very horror of what Eldon Parr was now to suffer turned Hodder cold as he rang the bell and listened for the soft tread of the servant who would answer his summons. [9]
- But why had not even one poor word from his own hand accompanied the summons? [10]
- At Victoria's bidding Mr. Rangely knocked to ask for Austen Vane, and Austen himself answered the summons. [9]
- Yet, in the insistence of the note, it was, too, a challenge or a summons. [11]
- He must obey his father's summons. [10]
Sentences containing summons two or more times
- About the middle of the afternoon came a summons for Manchon and me to go to Joan's dungeon--a summons from Cauchon. [5]
More example sentences with the word summons in them
- But, pugnaciously as your loud voice summons to the strife, it will never destroy the sacred and venerable things which are worthy to endure. [10]
- When I stopped writing last evening at the summons of the General, I was about to tell you something of the battle of Bentonville on Tuesday last. [9]
- As for thy wife, I shall treat her as a stranger unless, as a prophetess, she summons me to announce a new message from the Lord. [10]
- The days came when the tender-hearted Miss Forsythe went about the house restless, impatient, tearful, waiting for a summons that was sure to come when she was needed. [4]
- When the steward went to summons the musicians to his master's house he had again had no bidding for Dada, and she was very indignant at being left behind. [10]
- Charles left for Washington, summons from President, in the midst of it. [9]
- In moderate obedience to this summons Honora arrived, on the evening in question, before the ornamental ironwork of Mrs. Dallam's front door at a few minutes after seven o'clock. [9]
- When the summons to Ratisbon had reached him in Brussels, he had been joyously ready to obey it--nay, he had felt it a great happiness to see again the beloved place for which he had never ceased to long. [10]
- Duty summons me to my ship. [10]
- It was as though there had come a call, for which she had waited long, and she appeared to respond slowly to it, as one would to a summons to the scaffold. [11]
- Heinz had regarded this demand as a summons to turn traitor. [10]
- He began to think upon ways and means to meet this sudden preference of the Queen, made sharply manifest as he waited in the ante-chamber, by a summons to the refugee to enter the Queen's apartments. [11]
- Like muffled silver these brain-bells were, and she was as one who enters into a deep forest, and hears far away in the boscage the mystic summons of forest deities. [11]
- Then he thanked the old man and asked, in subdued tones, whether all the Hebrews had willingly obeyed the summons to leave house and lands. [10]
- The seneschal wrote the messages, and sent the summons to the sleek men of the cities, and let it be known that the coffers were full and not too tightly sealed, that the faithful should not lack for the sinews of war. [9]
- It was not the first time she had brought that summons, and always her manner was the same! [9]
- Two days before the convention, immediately after taking dinner at the Ripton House with Mr. Nat Billings, Hilary Vane, in response to a summons, drove up to Fairview. [9]
- She now knew that he was obeying her summons, that he had come to find her. [10]
- Therefore it is that each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her. [6]
- But Barbara's vivacious temperament shrank from their summons as from the tomb or the dungeon and, with all due reverence, she said so to the kindly nuns. [10]
- Your summons to take our Redeemer's cross upon me pleases me better. [10]
- He obeyed your summons, and you--you consented to wed another? [10]
- St. Clare herself summons you to her heavenly home. [10]
- Joan sent a summons to the English, promising that if they surrendered she would allow them to go in peace and take their horses with them. [5]
- Go, obey the summons of Nun. [10]
- The horses are stamping impatiently outside; duty summons the most faithful of men, and he stands like a prophet, indulging in mysterious sayings! [10]
- Please remember that she who wrote it summons you from the darkness where you are to light and freedom here. [11]
- With bitter emotions, she replaced the casket in the chest and obeyed the summons to dinner, but found no one at the great table except Adrian and the servants. [10]
- And she, when she heard the summons, abandoned a turkey on the spit, pitched her brats out of the door, seized the mare, and dashing through the gates at a gallop left me to make my way back afoot. [9]
- Shortly after my return from abroad, in answer to his summons, I found him at Heinrich's, his napkin tucked into his shirt front, and a dish of his favourite sausages before him. [9]
- She would not resist this summons, for she had often made her way to the government building, and took special pleasure in the society of the aristocratic Spaniards. [10]
- When, after the Peace of Paris, the young friends parted, they vowed eternal fidelity, and each solemnly promised to obey the other's summons, should it ever come. [10]
- Doubtless it points out many paths, and shows us their end; but, of a hundred rambles to which it summons him, scarcely one pleases the mature man. [10]
- She said nothing of the summons which she had received that morning, or of her answer; and her account of the matter of the dismissal and reinstatement was brief and dignified, and contained no mention of Mr. Worthington's name or agency. [9]
- On the ninth of May there was a summons, and Manchon and I got out materials together and started. [5]
- He at once obeyed the summons, and the steeds, which the driver did not spare, soon carried him back to the governor's house. [10]
- Yet she instantly obeyed the physician's summons, approached the bed, said kindly that she had been glad to come to stay with her a short time, and asked what she desired. [10]
- You did not obey the summons of the Most High. [10]
- The son of Nun is unworthy of the summons of the Most High. [10]
- He stood picturing, now, the woman in answer to whose summons he had come. [9]
- But he did not return home; for after the council of the elders had separated, he helped the new commander to marshal the soldiers and did so as an assistant, subordinate to Hosea, who owed to her his summons and the name of Joshua. [10]
- Even the leech Nebsecht came; for he feared that the unusual summons announced the outbreak of a fire. [10]
- At last the music sounded the well-known summons, and the floors began to ring to the tread of the dancers. [6]
- That often happens--a man summons up all his reserves for one last effort. [11]
- Her heart was lighter as she rapped with the knocker on the syndic's door; but, although she repeated the summons several times, not a sound was heard in the silent house. [10]
- There was a knock upon the door, and, in response to a summons, Tang-a- Dahit stepped inside. [11]
- We will gladly keep him in the Beguines home until the angel summons him. [10]
- Kitty Fagan answered its summons, and presently entered the parlor and announced that Mr. Bradshaw was in the library, and wished to see the ladies. [6]
- Far beneath unconsciousness is there the summons of your spirit to me? [11]
- Life came back into the eyes at the summons, and dominance into the voice, although he breathed heavily. [9]
- He might be in China, in Timbuctoo when the summons was delivered at his last or usual place of abode. [9]
- Had recent events imposed upon him the virile duty of vengeance, doubt and hesitation would have vanished and his father's summons would have spurred him on to action; but who had been the heaviest sufferers here? [10]
- To you, Gabriel, I answer that my son probably will not tarry among our foes, but obedient to my summons, will join us, like Uri, the first-born of Hur. [10]
- Miriam's summons called him back to his people. [10]
- She could not help obeying his summons, for as soon as she listened to the warning voice within, the "Because I long for love" with which he had clasped her in his arms, urged her with irresistible power toward the lover who awaited her coming. [10]
- You were a Hebrew, and yet became a mighty chief among the Egyptians ere you obeyed Miriam's summons. [10]
- No summons from Heaven could be more powerful than the call that takes me away. [10]
- When one morning he went to the Peacock Inn at the summons of Mrs. Mavick, in order to lay out a plan of campaign, he found Evelyn and her governess seated on the veranda, with their books. [4]
- After much thought, he must disobey the Governor's summons, and he prayed that his Excellency would grant his consideration thereupon. [11]
- The servant said he had been at the house after his morning visits, but found a hasty summons to Mr. Kirkwood, who had been taken suddenly ill and wished to see him at once. [6]
- It was very hard for her to leave him and neglect the duties which she had undertaken, but in the presence of the summons addressed to her every other consideration must be silent. [10]
- The summons from Froebel to devote himself to his infant institute, where Langethal had placed his younger brother, also reached him. [10]
- To the dramatic French mind, ceremonial is ever welcome; and for a moment it had them in its grip, as old Gabriel Druse read out in his ringing voice, the trenchant royal summons. [11]
- As Laflamme waited for the summons to huts, a squad of prisoners went clanking by him, manacled. [11]
- As I waited for my summons to be answered it struck me as remarkable that neither Nancy nor her father had been contaminated by the shabbiness that surrounded them. [9]
- He took it for granted that the summons did not admit of rejection, and he was right. [11]
- He had hastily followed her, and thereafter impatiently awaited a summons which never came, though he had sent a message that his hours were at her Majesty's disposal. [11]
- It was with fear and trembling that she heard the summons which went forth, that the whole family should meet in the parlor to listen to a statement from Mr. Penhallow. [6]
- Twichell, in Hartford, expecting to receive the final summons to start, wrote: "Oh, my! [5]
- He had obeyed Dr. Hiltner's summons, and remained a long time with him. [10]
- I was settling down delightedly to my old, easy, and unmolested existence when Farrar and I received an invitation, which amounted to a summons, to go to Mohair and make ourselves generally useful. [9]
- Most of the company rose to obey the summons. [10]
- When the others calmly acknowledged their conviction, it sounded like the summons itself. [5]
- The student is called from his bench, the professor from his chair, the practitioner in his busiest period hears a knock more peremptory than any patient's midnight summons, and goes on that unreturning visit which admits of no excuse, and suffers no delay. [3]
- From within came bursts of uproarious laughter, and a summons to enter. [9]
- However, she would beg Euryale to see Diodoros, and to tell him what forced her to obey the emperor's summons, if he should send for her. [10]
- And the Colonel astutely remarked, as he rode up in answer to a summons, that if Porter was the only man whose daring could have pushed a fleet to that position, Sherman was certainly the only man who could have got him out of it. [9]
- This woman who, as it were, summons me to battle, shall have her wish. [10]
- Finally he was aroused by what seemed a summons from the unknown--the prolonged morning whistle of the shoe factory. [9]
- There was still another to whom implicit obedience was due, Pharaoh, to whom he had solemnly vowed loyal service, sworn to follow his summons without hesitation or demur, through fire and water, by day and night. [10]
- Quijada eagerly approached, and the valet was respectfully leaving the room, but the Emperor's summons stopped him. [10]
- He gave Sappho an audience at once, and heard from her that Prexaspes had brought her husband an order to start for Arabia, and herself a summons to Memphis from the queen-mother. [10]
- The Ratisbon councillor allowed him to finish his explanation, and then with quiet dignity remarked that his Majesty's summons did not concern him. [10]
- This desire contained a summons to action, and to be able to bestir themselves in useful service appeared like a favour to Thyone and Daphne. [10]
- Presently rumors of a mighty issue about the Truro Railroad began to be discussed by the politicians at the Coniston store, and Jake Wheeler held himself in instant readiness to answer a summons to the capital--which never came. [9]
- I imagined myself a death-sentinel drowsing there alone, far in the dragging watches of some wailing, gusty night, and having in a twinkling all my body stricken to quivering jelly by the sudden clamor of that awful summons! [5]
- At the summons "To my People," he had enlisted at once as a private soldier in the Lutzow corps, where he rose rapidly to the rank of Oberjager. [10]
- When the summons "To my People" called the German youth to war, Froebel had already entered his thirty-first year, but this did not prevent his resigning his office and being one of the first to take up arms. [10]
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