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Ms. Franks, who had assumed her seat at the piano, struck an invocatory chord.

The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

I smiled, expecting the crowd to laugh; yet there was something terrible about his blind, invocatory figure, and no one did.

The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

In Ireland a plan for reclaiming the child carried away by the Fairies was to take the Fairy's changeling and place it on the top of a dunghill, and then to chant certain invocatory lines beseeching the Fairies to restore the stolen child.

Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen

Mozarabic, though Post-Pridie is the name of the prayer which follows, has (after an invocatory prayer to our Lord) "D.N.J. C. in qua nocte tradebatur", etc., following St. Paul's words in I Cor., xi, in which it agrees with the principal Eastern Liturgies.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

There were two dialects in ancient Sumeria, and the invocatory hymns were composed in what was known as "the women's language".

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

He gave an invocatory sweep with his brush, and the spirit of complete modernity descended and perched upon the top of his easel.

With the Procession Henry Blake Fuller 1893

Stepping up to the desk of the astounded principal, he laid the points of his fingers delicately upon it, and, with a preparatory inclination of his head towards her, placed his other hand in his breast, and with an invocatory glance at the ceiling, began.

Trent's Trust, and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869

The great invocatory prayer ended, the high-priest received from Remeses a votive crystal box of the fragrant

The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage 1859

Whether it was some superstitious feeling that attached itself to that spot, or the impression made on them by the grandeur of the scene, the meeting of the two great rivers forming a sort of lake, lighted up by a splendid sunset, I know not, but they all assembled in the stern of the boat, and repeated a sort of invocatory prayer.

Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville Prince De Joinville 1859

And when she was part of a group of school students who sang an invocatory hymn at the Congress session in Belgaum in the

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