Sentence examples for the incantation from inspiring English sources

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the incantation

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The act or process of using formulas and/or usually rhyming words, sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results.

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The incantation reads: Once the Idisi sat, sat here and there, :some bound fetters, some hampered the army, :some untied fetters: Escape from the fetters, flee from the enemies.

The Idisi mentioned in the incantation are generally considered to be valkyries.

At its best, the incantation works.

Paolo's breathing slowed as he took Sophie through the incantation.

While upbraiding her for repeating the incantation, the innkeeper repeats it himself.

All he did was repeat the incantation "We can catch up with England in fifteen years".

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Some of the incantations in the film are traditional, but some we wrote ourselves.

Here the incantations of his style are used for a slighter purpose, as if he were honing his instruments.

As long as you are vigilant about saying the incantations in front of the mirror every morning, you and your family will be ABSOLUTELY FINE!

It is also a comment on the financial instruments that caused the global crisis, some of which strike her as fictions with no more substance than the incantations of levitators.

The incantations are close to inviting: in the single chord and rising pulse of "Jim," Gira sings, "Let's raise up our hands in prayer, walk barefoot upon this carpet of air".

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