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Example sentences for "summoned"

Lexicographically close words:
summit; summits; summo; summon; summond; summoner; summoners; summoneth; summoning; summons
  1. On his way back home, however, he fell in with an outlying camp of Welled Ali, somewhere to the east of the Hauran, and summoned it to surrender.

  2. There being no witnesses to examine, and nothing in the pocket-book found upon the body, the proprietor of Rome removed two tears with his red silk handkerchief, and briefly summoned up the case.

  3. Having assumed command of the Mackerel Brigade, the Grim Old Fighting Cox immediately summoned all his officers to his presence, and, having engaged each in single combat and defeated him, he proceeded to show his great ability.

  4. Welsh miners, and who, after being the head of the greatest profit-making enterprise in the Welsh coalfields, is now summoned to carry on war against the profiteers in the provision trade.

  5. When with the morrow's dawn the bugle blew, For the first time it summoned you in vain, The Last Post does not sound for such as you, But God's Reveille wakens you again.

  6. Civilians summoned to the War Office pass from confidence to abasement, and from abasement to megalomania in the space of half an hour.

  7. He was consul in Africa at the time when summoned to save his country from the danger threatening it from the barbarian hordes.

  8. In 1208 Innocent summoned the King of France to sweep from southern France these heretics, "worse than the Saracens," and he promised to the leaders of the crusade the domains they won of the princes who favoured the heresy.

  9. He now summoned Coke before him and communicated to him the king's dissatisfaction with his Reports, desiring, however, to be spared further service in his disgracing.

  10. The choice of councillors in the wards rested probably with the aldermen and the ward jury summoned by them to make the presentments.

  11. The council had further a complete system of scribes or secretaries (grammateis), private treasury officials, and a paid herald who summoned the Boule and the Ecclesia.

  12. There was no compulsion on those not specially summoned to attend these extra meetings.

  13. Both parties appeared in the court when the case was tried, and the yard-porter Vassily was summoned as witness.

  14. It was noon of the next day when he was summoned to the police officer; put through a close examination, and sent in the care of a policeman to Eugene Mihailovich's shop.

  15. Proshka was summoned before the constable, who began to examine him.

  16. Some one saw me passing through the street that night, and I was summoned with others.

  17. They summoned before them every one they thought could give information, and every one who refused to answer their questions was sent to jail.

  18. Take the present day, and look at the list of grand jurors that are summoned the two seasons of the year in every county in Ireland.

  19. It was evening when the housekeeper summoned him to the sick-room.

  20. Do you therefore consider whither you are called, and from what you are summoned away.

  21. But if you thought that even the laws of an earthly empire were to be summoned to your aid, we do not blame you for this.

  22. This man whom she had summoned to her aid bid fair to make flight necessary even for a woman.

  23. The warder scratched his head, and bethinking himself that Eastcheap Jockey was the reverend father's man, summoned a horse-boy to call that worthy.

  24. The lads had not been seen all night, and the master himself had in the midst of his displeasure and anxiety been summoned to the Guildhall.

  25. He summoned Froebel to him, and made inquiries as to his plans for the future.

  26. The States General were never summoned and no affair of importance was submitted to the Council of State in Brussels.

  27. Brax" had summoned Minor, Lawrence, Kinsey, and Dryden to hear what the post surgeon had to say on his return, but cautioned them to keep quiet.

  28. Yet the clergyman thought him irresponsible, and summoned a physician from the asylum.

  29. At noon Johannes was again summoned to the drawing-room.

  30. For this reason he took Piero with him to Rome, when he was summoned thither by Pope Sixtus in order to paint the scenes in his chapel; in one of which Piero executed a very beautiful landscape, as was related in the Life of Cosimo.

  31. There was very great disdain between Michelagnolo Buonarroti and him, on account of which Michelagnolo departed from Florence, with the excuse of Duke Giuliano, having been summoned by the Pope to the competition for the façade of S.

  32. The troops under Massey were too well-disciplined, too often summoned into action with like suddenness, to go bungling about getting ready for the route.

  33. Hence the shining retinue he had summoned to attend him in this ride through the Forest of Dean--one of the pleasure excursions he was accustomed to make under the plea of a military reconnaissance.

  34. Now that he was gone to Gloucester--so unexpectedly summoned thither--all was different, and to Vaga the country life she had so enthusiastically praised seemed no longer delightful.

  35. Summoned into the Audience Chamber, where Charles had gone to receive him, he presented the latter with a document, the reading of which caused him to tremble and turn pale.

  36. In ancient times it was summoned to convene in the autumn of each year; but public exigencies often rendered its meetings more frequent.

  37. No council ever assembled unless it was summoned under the prescribed forms.

  38. Young Edward appears to have been known till near the end of his father's reign as Earl of Chester; he was summoned to parliament by that title in 1320, and in each of the four following years.

  39. Wiclif was soon summoned to appear before a convocation at Oxford, at which the archbishop presided, and several bishops were present.

  40. Bacon, then sixty-four years old, was accordingly summoned to Paris (Dr.

  41. His principal supporters at Oxford had been summoned before a synod to answer for their own delinquencies, and had been compelled to retract or explain away their obnoxious sentiments.

  42. After this meeting Wiclif devoted himself to his parochial duties, but in a few months he was summoned from them to answer new charges.

  43. A few months only elapsed after the return of Wiclif, when he was summoned to appear before a convocation to answer the charge of holding heretical doctrines.

  44. In May, 1382, Courtney, now Archbishop of Canterbury, summoned a council to consider the doctrines attributed to Wiclif.

  45. He looked at Kenton with tears in his eyes, but contained himself and decorously summoned a waiter, who brought him whatever corresponds to a city directory in Vienna.

  46. He took the colonel's passport and summoned a waiter, who went bowing before them up a staircase more or less grandiose, and led them to a pleasant chamber, whither he sent directly a woman servant.

  47. Therefore by every motive of self-preservation we are summoned to be just.

  48. It is a practical question, which you are summoned to decide.

  49. There seemed to be a settled sadness over his soul when he prayed about her, and when at last she returned and summoned him to her he was no nearer a solution of his difficulty than when he had last left her.

  50. They marched out to a point designated by the lieutenant and there stacked their arms, over which the lieutenant summoned two of his men to stand guard.

  51. The sentinel could not have summoned the sergeant without quitting his post; but he could summon the corporal by a simple guard call, and the corporal could go to the sergeant and summon him to the lieutenant's presence.


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