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The priest invoked a blessing for the sick child.
The priest invoked a blessing for the sick child.
The old woman invoked the aid of a stranger when her husband collapsed on the sidewalk.
All his life, he refused to believe in any religion, but on his deathbed he suddenly invoked God, and asked for forgiveness.
The military leader invoked religious principles to justify his overtaking the government.
The police invoked a law against child abuse to arrest the man after he bought sex from a teenage prostitute.
The old witch invoked the help of evil spirits to destroy her enemy.
The military leader invoked religious principles to justify his overtaking the government.
The gradient steepened, the snow was hard, and the axe was invoked.
Erosion must in the long run be invoked, and its power therefore conceded.
She invoked the assistance of her friend the cabinet-maker with ideas; and, under the guise of amusing themselves, they drew up a long and business-like prospectus of the proposed new institutions.
The priest first recounted the good deeds of the King and attributed to him all possible virtues; then he invoked a curse for whatever has been done wrongfully, absolving the King from all blame and praying that the vengeance might fall on his ministers who had suggested evil things (?
Some authorities have, however, invoked in this connection the possible effects of atmospheric electricity, and pointed to the extreme sensitiveness of many persons to the approach of thunderstorms; a condition which Dr.
In the Middle Ages ecclesiastical or occult agencies were invoked; “hail crosses” (such as are still seen in the Tyrol) were erected; and the ringing of church bells was considered efficacious against both hail and lightning, as is shown by the inscriptions found on many old bells.
The poor doctor thought his last hour had come, and went down on his knees and invoked all the prophets he could think of; but his tormentors dragged him off to a field close by, where they made him swallow bottle after bottle of his own nostrum, then ducked him in a pond and tossed him in a blanket.
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