To Maximus, for the invocation of demons.

For a moment he sits wrapped in thought, and then commences a weird chant of invocation to the spirit of the dead woman, during which her relations in turn drop a copper coin into the salver.

In all the mosques, Friday prayers were ended with an invocation for the welfare of the Sultan and "Hadji Wilhelm."

The invocation in this last inaugural is based upon the understanding that there is again a common country and that in caring for those who have been in the battle and in the binding up of the wounds, there is to be no distinction between the men of the grey and those of the blue.

Well, the sacred invocations at the beginning of Pulci's cantos were compliances of the like sort with a custom.

But here their difficulties began for none of them knew what incantations the men said on such an occasion; they wasted a lot of time each urging the other to begin, at last the wife of the headman plucked up courage and started an invocation like this: "We sacrifice this bullock to you; grant that our husbands may return; let not the Raja sacrifice them but grant them a speedy return."

"Iron, O thou ill-omened one!" cried Rrisa, with the ancient invocation against the sand-storm.

How many women whose hearts hang on the war, whose all is there, in daily and nightly jeopardy, read the words "British Headquarters" with an involuntary lift of soul, an invocation without words!

[Footnote 10: almost the same invocation as when first he saw the apparition.]

The cook could not hear him, and continued swimming on with all the force of his faith, repeating his pious invocations between his noisy snortings.

being, as I understood it at the time, an invocation by his style and title, of the spirit he wished to see.

Boasting themselves as gifts of gratitude or invocation from emperors and popes, kings, princes, palsgraves, and all the other minor thrones and dominions of the earth, these splendid offerings form the most plausible illustration of the miraculous power attributed to the image of the Black Lady, which has been deposited in its actual abode since the year of Grace 696.