So the poet invokes two gods, Siva and Ganesa, and one goddess Sarasvati, the goddess of speech and learning.
And if its father and mother be gone, it invokes the protection of the king who is appointed to succour the afflicted, and if it cannot obtain the aid of the king, it calls upon the deity under whose special protection it is.
The belief is that, as the god glances at these villages, he invokes blessings on them, and the villagers will always live in prosperity.
The devil-dancer wears the kudumi, and has a belt, bangles, and other implements; and invokes the demons in case of sickness.
In the next eight verses the prayer follows a chronological order: our Saint first invokes the early patriarchs: Abel, Seth, etc.
Saint Colga invokes him along with some of the most distinguished saints of the early Church; and as if to mark the great labours of that apostolic man, the holy men with whom he joins him are all martyrs.
Pancatantram, where the king of the frogs invokes the help of a black serpent to avenge himself upon certain frogs who are his enemies, and, instead of this, draws down death upon all the frogs and upon his own son.
The nurse invokes the help of Crane, the friend of Janus, who has the faculty of hunting good and evil away from the doorsteps of houses.
It has a horror of law, and never invokesit when the matter can be settled by any other means.
He invokes the aid of all the animals, mentioning each by name, and also calls on them, especially the deer and the rabbit, to multiply that the people may have plenty to eat.
Upon the men the performer invokes physical strength and bravery in war; and upon the women luck with paddy, cleverness in Dyak feminine accomplishments, and beauty in form and complexion.
Each day he invokes help from above, and each day also the light increases in his soul.
About to sing of a region where human spirits are purged of their sins and prepared to enter heaven, Dante invokes the aid of the muses.
He therefore invokes the help of Apollo to describe that part of the universe upon which is lavished the greatest share of light.
Eagerly glancing in the direction indicated, Dante perceives Beatrice, who, when he invokes her, smiles radiantly down upon him, ere she again turns her face to the eternal fountain of light.
Thor brandishes his hammer, and in a formidable and joyous voice invokes the wind and the clouds.
The text invokes the god's blessing upon the successor to the throne, provided that the latter when he sacrifices makes mention of Panammu's soul with Hadad or prays that Panammu's soul may eat and drink with the god.
Finally, the Judge invokes against me the memory of Clay and Webster, They were great men, and men of great deeds.
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
The kid runs to the shore and invokes his sister, who answers from the bottom of the sea that she can do nothing.
She then embarks in a ship; while she is at sea all the sailors become enamoured of her and wish to possess her; she invokes the god who caused Pharaoh to be drowned and who saved Noah from the waters.
Syrinx, arrested in her flight by the waves of the river Ladon, invokes the aid of her sisters, the Naiads, who change her into reeds.
Tereus invokes the Furies, who are thus called from having their hair wreathed with serpents.
Her father in vain invokes the assistance of Apollo, for he, in the guise of a shepherd, is tending his oxen in the country of Elis.
Invokes unto Song, where the still Hopes go, The Spirit's immutable law.
She therefore invokesthe night to veil those rites which she was about to perform, and to bring her Romeo to her arms in darkness and in silence.
He invokes the pleasant Streams to comfort his miserable Heart, as also the God of Love to pity his tormented Mind.
She invokes all Joy to her Breast, affirming that all her Sorrow is vanish'd, and that enjoying the Company of her Dear she can want nothing.
Whenever the evidence of the miraculous seems incommensurate with the fact which it has to establish, or rather when the fact is so amazing that hardly any evidence is sufficient to establish it, Mr. Mozley invokes 'the affections.
Hence the exercise it invokes does not end in a mere game of intellectual gymnastics, such as the ancients delighted in, but tends to the mastery of Nature.
If not, it must have been pushed down by the very forces which Mr. Thomson invokesto produce his liquefaction.
Thus the very existence of these capillaries is rendered so questionable, that no theory of glacier-motion which invokes their aid could be considered satisfactory.
In this bridal song the poet first addresses Hymen; and as the bride was now about to proceed from her paternal mansion to the house of her husband, invokes his aid in raising the nuptial hymn.
Ennius afterwards invokes a great number of the Gods, and then proceeds to the history of the Alban kings.
Observe that he now, in direct antagonism to the spirit of the Restoration, invokes Napoleon as a species of liberator.
He tells us that if we exercise this power we shall have an Established Church, and heinvokes the National Constitution.
Whoever invokes the authority of Holy Writ calls God to witness, since it is His word that Holy Writ contains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "invokes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
