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Five hundred dark-coated figures crowded their way down a crooked street in the Himmel-pfortgrund, stopped before an empty house tucked away there, hummed an invocatory pitch and sang the Serenade of Franz Peter Schubert.

From Time Magazine Archive

The writings that make up Veda are: Rig Veda, invocatory science; Yajur Veda, sacrificial; Sama Veda, melody; Atharva Veda, of incantation.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai

And there was nothing but invocatory cries, Mad impulses, prayers and vows that cleave The arch�d skies, And sudden yearning to create new gods, In order to believe.

From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various

There were two dialects in ancient Sumeria, and the invocatory hymns were composed in what was known as "the women's language".

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander

About evening the wind rose, after much invocatory whistling, many prayers, many curses.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter