every one obeyed the summons willingly enough.

When your envoy, great king, came to demand a princess, this lady would have answered the summons, but the Emperor of Han could not bring himself to part with her, and refused to yield her up.

I did not wonder in the morning to receive a summons from my aunt, and I found her in her accustomed chair before the table piled with papers.

The same day he sent Carleton the following summons: SIR;Notwithstanding the personal ill-treatment I have received at your handsnotwithstanding your cruelty to the unhappy Prisoners you have taken, the feelings of humanity induce me to have recourse to this expedient to save you from the Destruction which hangs over you.

At an early hour of the morning was heard its piercing summons to the work-people, and all the night long its glare illuminated the sky.

Trusting to the mercy and goodness of God, I patiently await my summons.

I wait God's summons contentedly in my own house, or, if it please the king to call me out again, upon the field of battle.

At the same time he brought a summons from the senate to Gracchus and Flaccus to appear before it and to answer for their violation of the majesty of the tribunes.

I have, therefore, acquainted my uncle in reply, that I am willing to attend the Conde's summons at any moment he will choose to make them; and I thought it a debt due your care and friendship to apprise your lordship of my approaching departure from this country; indeed, I have great reasons for believing that your kind and unremitted efforts to attain this object have already prepared you to expect this result.

She rose at once, with a little movement of alarm, yet with docile and instant obedience, as if she had expected the summons.

Let the shrill fife, the flute, the sackbut ring A summons to our Admiral, a salvo to our King!

" The night-porter, with evident unwillingness, repeated his summons, this time loud enough to wake any ordinary sound sleeper.

and rouse ye, then, my brothers, But when next ye hear the bell Sounding forth the sullen summons That may be our funeral knell, Once more let us meet together, Once more see each other's face; Then, like men that need not tremble, Go to our appointed place.

And in the frosty season, when the sun Was set, and, visible for many a mile The cottage windows through the twilight blazed, I heeded not the summons: happy time It was indeed for all of us; for me It was a time of rapture!

A black-bordered funeral notice, veiled with crape, announced that the great Caller-home of exiles had served his summons upon Don Pedro Hernandez (surname borrowed for the occasion), and Don Carlos Mendez y Benito.

After she is covered with it, the maid is secured for the king's otan, or harem, and it is death to disobey the royal summons.

On the morning of the fifth day after they had reached the Rhone, and of the third after Hanno's departure, the smoke-signals of the division that had been detached rose up on the opposite bank and gave to Hannibal the anxiously awaited summons for the crossing.

Meantime Bemani had taken out a summons for causing grievous hurt against Ramani Babu and his servants.

The senate then issues a summons to the defendant, ordering him to file his answer with the secretary of the senate by a certain day.

Hiero had sufficient reason to treat the summons, by which the Romans required him to desist from hostilities against their new confederates in Messana, precisely in the same way as the Samnites and Lucanians in similar circumstances had received the occupation of Capua and Thurii, and to answer the Romans by a declaration of war.

Keats's mother died of consumption; and he nursed his younger brother in the same disease, to the last,and, by so doing, in all probability, hastened his own summons.

He had been compelled in self-defence to issue summonses against two of his people.

Chalcis was garrisoned by the Greek allies of the Romans, and refused the first summons but the fortress surrendered when Antiochus advanced with all his force; and a Roman division, which arrived too late to occupy it, was annihilated by Antiochus at Deliurn.

I've filed a summons and complaint against you for assault and battery, and beg to notify you of the fact.'

and support.' "Should he wish her sent for, I asked, I knew she would not demand a second summons.