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Example sentences for "conjurations"

Lexicographically close words:
conjunctive; conjunctivitis; conjuncture; conjunctures; conjuration; conjure; conjured; conjurer; conjurers; conjures
  1. Nor did the music leave sounding, till he came forth of the treasure to the Maghribi, who gave up his conjurations and fumigations and rose up and embraced him and saluted him.

  2. But will thy conjurations bring back my sister?

  3. Whether the demon sometimes appeared in consequence of the prayers or conjurations and, if so, in what figure or guise, and what he said or did.

  4. He had confessed that a Frenchman had given him a paper and some conjurations through which to win women, but it only rendered them possessed--a statement evidently fabricated to satisfy his torturers.

  5. Herewith issued a dense smoke spireing high in air and spreading all about the palace; and a few moments after, Peri-Banu who had ceased her conjurations cried, "Lookye my brother Shabbar cometh!

  6. And yet I fear me greatly lest perchance whenas this sorceress, this Ghulah, shall find herself restored to woman's form and resumeth her conjurations and incantations she may--who knoweth?

  7. In this little scene, the contrast between the peaceful artistic labors of the marshal and the dread conjurations supposed to be written with his own hand in innocent blood, is a type of his strange career.

  8. His instructor mingled with his sacred functions the practice of catoptromancy, and once made use of his pupil and an older scholar to look into the polished basin, after due conjurations and the use of the holy chrism.

  9. So Azariah called a Jinni by conjurations and questioned him of Ali; and he replied, "'Tis Ali of Cairo himself.

  10. It was at Werowocomoco that Smith observed certain conjurations of the medicine men, which he supposed had reference to his fate.

  11. In one of these conjurations seven pieces of the root are laid upon one hand and rubbed gently with the other, the omen being taken from the position of the pieces when the hand is removed.

  12. The root of a plant called unatlunwe'hitu, "having spirals," is used in conjurations designed to predispose strangers in favor of the subject.

  13. Exorcisms and conjurations are not only to be spoken over the patient, but also to be written on slips of consecrated paper and applied, like a plaster, to the parts especially affected.

  14. An anathema of animals pronounced in accordance with the sentence passed upon them by a tribunal, belongs to the same category of conjurations and is rendered nugatory by any formal defect or judicial irregularity.

  15. Egyptian medical papyri contain both prescriptions for remedies to be used for various ailments, and conjurations for the expulsion of demons, together with petitions for the present intervention of deities.

  16. The various articles seized in Forman's house referred, however, not to the murder of Overbury, but to the conjurations employed against the Earls of Somerset and Essex.

  17. He died not many days later, believing, in common with his friends and relatives, that the conjurations of the "trick doctor" had failed to save him only because resorted to too late.

  18. Diaz was very much alarmed at this information, and redoubled his conjurations until he learned some method of destroying the enchantment.

  19. As a climax to my conjurations I speak the word of all words magical, "Dorothy," and lo!

  20. I chant my conjurations as I learned them from the Great Key of Solomon, and while I speak, the ruddy fumes take human forms.

  21. When the Italians and Spaniards entered the Netherlands in 1568, they carried along with them, with little success, whole packets and books full of magic formulas of conjurations and charms.

  22. Both these conjurations are relics of the heathen occult sciences, the echoes of which may still be discovered in manifold tales and traditions, even up to the present day.

  23. They profess to believe that their conjurations have no effect upon white men.

  24. He accordingly began a series of conjurations for the removal of the stick, while the white physician and his medicine were disregarded, and in due time the woman died.

  25. The shaman and his employer then retire to a lonely spot in the mountains, in the vicinity of a small stream, and begin a new series of conjurations with the beads.

  26. In some cases the disease is caused by the conjurations of an enemy, through which the patient becomes subject to an inordinate appetite, causing him to eat until his abdomen is unnaturally distended.

  27. This remark applies only to the medical practice, as the shaman always demands and receives a fixed remuneration for performing love charms, hunting ceremonials, and other conjurations of a miscellaneous character.

  28. We are already familiar with conjurations of this sort as elements of totemic cults.

  29. Even in the case of demons, aid was sought not merely by means of conjurations but also by means of actions that imitated, in dances and solemn mask processions, the activities of demons.

  30. Then Affan taught Bulukiya adjurations and conjurations galore and said to him, 'Repeat these conjurations and cease not repeating until I take the ring.

  31. I myself once rebelled against King Solomon and he sent against me this monk, the only being who could overcome me with his craft and his conjurations and his gramarye; then he imprisoned me, and since that time I have been his vassal.

  32. I have only introduced it as it is one affecting the insects and throwing light on many more charms and conjurations in which the Rumanian literature abounds.

  33. In connection with the foregoing Tales and Legends, it is of no small importance now to find that similar conjurations are used for the protection of animals.

  34. By conjurations these also may be induced to take on human shape.

  35. But if I had told you at the time--what conjurations of your little fingers!

  36. Feeling refreshed, Faith thought herself at liberty to reverse orders and went to the forbidden closet again, and to further conjurations with Best.

  37. For this had been his Cabalistic phase, when he dreamed of conjurations and spells and the Mastership of the Name.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conjurations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.