Before proceeding to weigh," the receiver of the toll said, approaching me, "I warn you that I shall summons you for carrying a heavier weight than the law allows.
The delight which these dreams produced on me, were the same as any other child feels when his fancy summons up before him a fantastic country where the houses are made of chocolate, the stones of sugar candy, and the men of gingerbread.
At my summons two slaves brought in a long and narrow chest, and a trestle for saving wood.
Eight o'clock struck and echoed through my heart like the peal that summons the culprit to execution; never in my life did I experience such emotion and torture.
A week had scarce elapsed when I received a summons to the office of Prefect of Police.
He opened the door, and went in, with unshaken nerves, to look upon that one quiet sleeper whom his summons could not awaken, whom his presence could not disturb.
In a few days there came another letter from Captain Paget, containing a fresh summons to Omega Street.
Captain Paget returned to town, mystified by that sudden summons from his patron, and eager to know what new aspect of affairs rendered his further presence in Ullerton useless or undesirable.
Diana obeyed this summons submissively, but still troubled by that strange sense of bewilderment which had affected her since her stormy interview with Captain Paget.
After that first summonsto Chelsea, Diana went many times--twice and three times a week--to comfort and tend her invalid father.
Contrecoeur of the place where we were, and of our disposition, that he might send his detachments to enforce the summons as soon as it should be given.
As to the Summons you send me to retire, I do not think myself obliged to obey it.
They informed me that they had been sent with a summons to order me to retire.
The summons was so insolent, and savored of so much Gasonade that if it had been brought openly by two men it would have been an excessive Indulgence to have suffered them to return.
Again, Scott's summons stated that batteries adequate to reduce the city were in readiness, and this was further notice of a bombardment.
Contumacious refers to a proud and insolent defiance of authority, as of thesummons of a court.
The sense is extended to include summonsby bell, or any signal.
At ten o'clock the summons came--Colonel Hacker knocked at the door to say they were ready.
The advice was adopted, and at the summons forty-three Peers and one hundred and eighteen Commoners assembled at Oxford.
On the 6th of June Oliver, in his own name as Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief of all the armies and forces, issued a summons to one hundred and forty persons to meet and constitute a Parliament.
Poyer, the Mayor of Pembroke, and governor of the castle, declared for the king, and at the summons of Fairfax refused to yield up his command.
Off he went at once and lodged with the Sheriff of Roxburghshire a complaint against Ringan, and a summons was issued.
Prim walks, bordered by high box hedges, intersected the carefully tended gardens, and along one of these Sara took her way, quickening her steps to a run as the booming summons of a gong suddenly reverberated on the air.
In this town she received a summons to appear before the official of Toul, in whose jurisdiction she was, as a native of Domremy-de-Greux.
On the 22nd of July came a new summons from the King, commanding the Estates to meet at Tours on the 10th of September.
To this summons the English paid no heed, albeit they had a great desire to come to some understanding.
Along with him Snorri sent his son Thord Kausi, with six men, that he might summons Kiartan's father, considering that there might be a little delicacy in the son bringing an action against the ghost of his own father.
He decides that such a summons is perfectly justifiable.
You will never get the blocks," said the solicitor, "unless you frighten him by a summonsbefore a magistrate.
To-day it summonsthe Latin School boys to recitations.
There was an unwonted suavity in his summons when he called me to his desk which I had learned to dread as liable to conceal some fatal thrust.
It was rather a summons to our people to cease skulking behind lying phrases and look the matter squarely in the face.
She blew it through the keyhole of the parlour door, expecting a speedy answer, but was not prepared for the sensation her summons created.
Ranald answered his mother's summons promptly, and it was not long before he was setting up his tripod in the room where the child lay.
Consequently, he was very loth to respond to a summons sent to him from Chi-chou in Chihli by the then powerful Yuean Shao.
Old age comes on, and yet withholds the summons to depart.
And the porter, another fee to the good, gets up and lets him in; and then he waits again in the stable as before, until perhaps the great man comes out and summons him to an audience.
And then Mary Ellen, deliberately tying the strings of her bonnet under her chin, turned, answering her aunt's summons for replevin of a forgotten fan.
Once this disturbing summonsto his life was merely disquieting and unformulated, but gradually now it assumed a shape more urgent and more definite.
In the light of that assurance, the call became, not a summons to give anything up, but an invitation to receive a better possession than all with which he was called to part.
It summons us in, and sometimes from, our daily work.
But its fall was the final and complete severance of Christianity from Judaism, and not till then had the messengers to give up the summons to Israel as hopeless.
He summons them to arise, not for flight, but that He may go out to meet the traitor.
His raised voice roused the patient, and a feeblesummons brought Miss Fletcher to the bedside.
John Knott, meanwhile, after driving home beneath the reeling stars, through the roar of the forest and shriek of the wind across the open moors, found an urgent summons awaiting him.
At this summons her companion, who until now had stood contemplating the wide view from the extreme verge of the platform, wheeled round.
When they come to the place assigned them in the summons or proclamation, their names are taken by certaine officers that haue commission for that purpose from the Roserade, or high Constable, as Clarkes of the bands.
Half-a-dozen bounds of my steed brought me back to the edge of a standing timber--where I pulled up, to ascertain the purport of this singular summons that had reached me.
I repeated both my summons and query--this time in still a louder and more commanding tone; and this time I obtained a response.
Then he responded to a summons from the Bavarian Court to go as solo cellist to Munich.
But in 1791 he relinquished this position in order to obey a summons to Zurich.
It was as though there had come a call, for which she had waited long, and she appeared to respond slowly to it, as one would to a summons to the scaffold.
The matter that morning to be considered concerned the means to be taken, within the local jurisdictions of those there met, to enforce the process of the summons which had been issued against the reformed preachers to appear at Stirling.
At the second summons Ivan started, shook himself, and turned towards the other bed: "What did you say?
And now--even now, how could he have the faintest assurance that this summons meant forgiveness?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "summons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
