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A young giant of a man stood up in response to this adjuration, blushing and smiling bashfully. "Here I be!" "Sing away, lad, sing away!" "Wet yer pipe, and whistle!" "Tune up, my blackbird!" Steevy, thus adjured, straightened himself to his full stature of over six feet and drank off a cupful of ale.
I dinna hold wi' your secrets, and a secret that the haill toun kens!" She snapped her fingers with an air of large disdain. As for Jarvis, ruddy and big as he was, he shrank to nothing before this decided woman. He repeated to her two or three times her own adjuration, "Hold your peace!" then, suddenly changing his tone, cried out, "Tell him then, confound ye! I'll wash my hands o't.
'Down with the butcher! down with the heathen tyrant, who refuses the adjuration on the Gospels rather than be reconciled to the patriarch! Tear him out of the chariot! yelled the monks.
Powerful though the fellow's adjuration was, I refused his request, considering that, after his evidently long abstention, it would do him more harm than good perhaps kill him, even to let him drink too freely at first; so, putting the jug and tumbler out of his sight and reach, I turned my attention to the longboat alongside.
And Durtal thought of those Complines of which the paternity is often attributed to Saint Benedict; they were in fact the integral prayer of the evenings, the preventive adjuration, the safeguard against the attempts of the Demon, they were in some measure the advanced sentinels of the out-posts placed round the soul to protect it during the night.
The saddled horse in the stable was mounted as he muttered one adjuration and oath after another, and Antonia sat down at the window to watch for the result of her message.
A few more sentences introduce to us the old soothsayer Tiresias for whom, at the instigation of Creon, Oedipus had sent. The seer answers the adjuration of the king with a thrilling and ominous burst "Wo wo! how fearful is the gift of wisdom, When to the wise it bears no blessing! wo!" The haughty spirit of Oedipus breaks forth at the gloomy and obscure warnings of the prophet.
The prior, raising the cross, rushed in among them, and, in the name of the blessed Son who died on that tree, bade them stand! The soldiers trembled before the holy majesty of his figure, and at his awful adjuration. The prior looked on the prisoner, but he did not see the dark locks of the Englishman; it was the yellow hair of Scotland that mingled with the blood on his forehead.
Finally, he addressed the deputies of the third estate in a tone full of bitterness: "And you, you eaters of good cities, if you do not obey my orders literally as my chancellor will explain them to you, you shall forfeit privileges, property, and life." All the fervency of this adjuration failed to convince the deputies of their duty, as conceived by the orator.
A hurricane of applause answered him a tempest of shouting that seemed to surge and sway through the air and down to the earth again like the beating of a powerful wind. "Give me your trust, O People!" he cried, carried beyond himself with the excitement and fervour of the scene "Give me yourselves!" Another roar replied to this adjuration.
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