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She was a pretty, invocating, weak-mouthed girl, whose chief defect as a companion with her sex was a tendency to peevishness now and then.

The Fiddler of the Reels 2006

“Grace!” said Fitzpiers, in an indescribable whisper — more than invocating, if not quite deprecatory.

The Woodlanders 2006

Because it is thus with men by nature, therefore doth the apostle so earnestly pray that these Ephesians might be enabled to understand and know these things: and he doth it with an unusual solemnity, invocating the "God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory;" which argues both a great intension of spirit in him, and great weight laid upon the matter of his request.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

"A priestess, say, invocating the Goddess of Kerosene!"

The Madigans Miriam Michelson 1906

She was a pretty, invocating, weak-mouthed girl, whose chief defect as a companion with her sex was a tendency to peevishness now and then.

Life's Little Ironies Thomas Hardy 1884

"Grace!" said Fitzpiers, in an indescribable whisper -- more than invocating, if not quite deprecatory.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

Yet we are told they remained in their dungeons "with much joy and great comfort, in continual reading and invocating the name of God, ever looking and expecting the happy day of their dissolution."

The King's Daughters Emily Sarah Holt 1864

And St. Paul likewise forbids the worshipping angels, by invocating of them, and making use of them as mediators between God and us, in his Epistle to the Colossians; which

The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 04. 1630-1694 1820

Latin very well, the Greek tongue not at all: he had some arts above, and beyond astrology, for he was well versed in the nature of spirits, and had many times used the circular way of invocating, as in the time of our familiarity he told me.

William Lilly's History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681 William Lilly 1641

But upon his invocating the Lord Jesus, they failed in their attempt.

The Purgatory of St. Patrick Pedro Calder��n de la Barca 1640