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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of summon.

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Examples

  • Hanish Mein, the current leader has set plans into motion: an assassin sent south to kill Leodan; an unknown people summoned from the north, the Numreks, who are giants with giant beasts to overthrow the Akarans once and for all.

    “Acacia” by David Anthony Durham (Doubleday, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • Soon after, the strange day took another strange turn, when Whitman strategists again summoned reporters, this time onto a conference call in which they tried to explain away Allred's evidence. eMeg handler Rob Stutzman, who would neither confirm nor deny the handwriting was Dr. Harsh's said:

    Phil Trounstine: Character in the CA Gov Race: eMeg, Nicky & the Smoking Letter Phil Trounstine 2010

  • Soon after, the strange day took another strange turn, when Whitman strategists again summoned reporters, this time onto a conference call in which they tried to explain away Allred's evidence. eMeg handler Rob Stutzman, who would neither confirm nor deny the handwriting was Dr. Harsh's, said: What we have here is a letter that is seven years old.

    Phil Trounstine: Character in the CA Gov Race: eMeg, Nicky and the Smoking Letter Phil Trounstine 2010

  • Our lead character, Victor Mons, is a painter whose most recent collection is titled Monstruary: “a menagerie of personal demons summoned from the disturbing and often erotic images of his past.”

    2010 March 31 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • I hope one day I wont be summoned from the dark with frantic cries of ma ma ma ma ma, and clutched tight while he burrows his head into my neck, whimpering because I left him.

    The Science Of Sleep | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • Our lead character, Victor Mons, is a painter whose most recent collection is titled Monstruary: “a menagerie of personal demons summoned from the disturbing and often erotic images of his past.”

    2010 March « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • Cla Meredith thought he had been summoned from the bullpen to face the dreadlocked slugger after Edward Mujica (0-1) had given up back-to-back singles to Rafael Furcal and Orlando Hudson with one out.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • “An Imam was summoned from the mosque and Michael went through the shahada, which is the Muslim declaration of belief.”

    Michael Jackson converts to Islam 2008

  • “An Imam was summoned from the mosque and Michael went through the shahada, which is the Muslim declaration of belief.”

    Hollywood Dame » Blog Archive » Michael Jackson Turns Muslim 2008

  • It was the third time in less than a month he was summoned from the minors. ...

    USATODAY.com 2008

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