Adjurations

Some of them are lists of rules about how community members are to behave; others are apparently apocalyptic visions of the future; still others are prayers and wise adjurations. ❋ James L. Kugel (2011)

He was not a good driver — and a worse back-seat driver: his adjurations to “keep the revs up” have passed into the family language. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then Affan taught Bulukiya adjurations and conjurations galore and said to him, ‘Repeat these conjurations and cease not repeating until I take the ring.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

Accordingly, after a vast amount of moaning and crying upstairs, and much damping of foreheads, and vinegaring of temples, and hartshorning of noses, and so forth; and after most pathetic adjurations from ❋ Unknown (2007)

Our pontifical writers retain many of these adjurations and forms of exorcisms still in the church; besides those in baptism used, they exorcise meats, and such as are possessed, as they hold, in Christ's name. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Unable to resist these fervent adjurations, which Richard Swiveller poured out as passionately as if they had been of the most solemn and tremendous nature, his companion spoke thus: ❋ Unknown (2007)

On top of one, nearly hidden by entwinings of later graffiti (hearts, male and female sexual equipment, adjurations to suck and bend over), he saw the initials CB, done in his own careful block letters. ❋ Bachman, Richard (2007)

I own that the violence of my passion for you might have carried me beyond fit bounds — but that your commands and adjurations had power over me at such a moment, I humbly presume to say, deserves some consideration. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The document was necessary to me for family considerations; and presently I stooped to such pleadings and rose to such adjurations, as made my ears burn to remember. ❋ Unknown (2005)

These mighty adjurations were as silver and gold plates set in a wall of dross. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Sabaeans; it is regarded by the Eesa and Gudabirsi Bedouins as even more binding than the popular religious adjurations. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Bewildered by these violent adjurations, and urged on by the instinct of self-preservation, so powerful in every human heart, ❋ �mile Gaboriau (2003)

Coudray hitting upon the five pilgrims, they carried them way-bound and manacled, as if they had been spies, for all the exclamations, adjurations, and requests that they could make. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Yet nowhere in the writings of the Bible or in the message of Jesus Christ do we encounter comparable adjurations. ❋ John Clayton Nils Jansma (2001)