On the day when the summoner shall summon to a stern business, With downcast eyes shall they come forth from their graves, as if they were scattered locusts, Hastening to the summoner.
Obey the Summoner of God, and believe in him, that He may forgive your sins, and rescue you from an afflictive punishment.
The Monk and the Friar, the Summoner and the Pardoner, do indeed remind us how large a share the Church claimed in every department of daily life; but they make us ask at the same time "how long can it last?
P: On that day they follow the summoner who deceiveth not, and voices are hushed for the Beneficent, and thou hearest but a faint murmur.
P: And whoso respondeth not to Allah's summoner he can nowise escape in the earth, and he hath no protecting friends instead of Him.
P: And as a summoner unto Allah by His permission, and as a lamp that giveth light.
No figure was better known or more hated than the summoner who enforced the jurisdiction and levied the dues of their courts.
When the languishing town of Mansoul had heard this summoner and his summons, they were yet more put to their dumps, but made to the captain no answer at all; so away he went as he came.
Friar's tale: a summoner taken away by the devil, from one of the old collections of exempla.
The name of summoner was held in little esteem, and no wonder: "Artow thanne a bailly?
This was very unjust and wicked, as it encouraged people to do wrong; and the Summoner grew quite rich in this evil way, for he kept all the money himself, and did not give it to the archdeacon.
Up in his stirrups did the Summoner start, For with this Friar such rage was in his heart, That like an aspen-leaf he shook for ire.
You will see later why he was so anxious to bring the Summoner to his own dwelling.
The wicked spirit holds the reins of both horses in his hand, and the Summoner already quakes in anticipation of what is in store for him.
However, the Summoner was quite content, so long as the silver and gold were shared with him.
The Summoner goes and raps at the old widow's gate.
And pray that this Summoner with us, may repent of his misdeeds before the devil carries him away.
He had a Summoner ready to his hand, who worked under this strict archdeacon with equal severity.
In company we will have no debate, Tell on your tale, and let the Summoner be.
But if agreeable to the company, I'll tell you of a Summoner such a game Belike you may imagine from the name, That of a Summonercan no good be said.
Be thou a summoner to love, and be thou kind to all the human race.
Emmanuel(26) was indeed the Herald of the Second Coming of Christ, and a Summoner to the pathway of the Kingdom.
Send down Thine aid, that each one gathered here may become a lighted candle, each one a centre of attraction, each one a summoner to Thy heavenly realms, till at last we make this nether world the mirror image of Thy Paradise.
Before each visitation day, as has been said, the archdeacon's or the bishop's summonerwent to each parish and gave warning that a court would be held in such and such a church on such and such a day.
The summoner has a fiery face, which nothing but abstinence from drink will assuage; and the pardoner is totally without conscience or morals of any kind.
I, the officer of the King's law and the lay summoner of Waverley, call upon the man named Nigel Loring!
But it is a crime against the law and an act of the Devil, which comes within the jurisdiction of the Abbey Court of Waverley when you dare to lay hands upon the summoner or his papers.
Now he broke in on the recital with a vehemence which made the summoner jump: "You shall rue what you have done this night!
Already the summoner and the archers with their prisoner were clear of the house.
Thus I did until the summoner of death came, and disasters occurred before me.
Listen, Lamme, and hearken: One day a Jew of Amsterdam summoned one of his enemies to come down into the street; the summoner was on the pavement and the summoned at a window.
In the same category of contempt for the existing ecclesiastical system, Chaucer places the sompnour, or summoner to the Church courts.
Summoner of generations from the source,[63] I Jehovah the First, and with the Last; I am He.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "summoner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
