unsummoned

(ʌnˈsʌmənd)

adj

not summoned or called; not having been summoned

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Thus pondering, and cradled by forty thoughts, it overtaketh me all at once--sleep, the unsummoned, the lord of the virtues.

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And he felt the stir in him, like a throe of yearning pain, of the desire to paint these visions that flashed unsummoned on the mirror of his mind.

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Who would dare enter the presence of Tario, unsummoned?"

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The butler, who seemed to have appeared unsummoned from somewhere among the shadows, served coffee and poured some old brandy into large and wonderfully thin glasses.

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He did not quit the house again that afternoon, and no one intruded on his solitude; till, at eight o'clock, I deemed it proper, though unsummoned, to carry a candle and his supper to him.

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At first glance, this new socialist presence just seems to have sprung up, unsummoned, unannounced.

The long march of Bernie's army: where it came from; where it's headed

The reality that now comes into view is spontaneous and unsummoned. We remain an observer but are now observing a scenario not of our own conscious making.

An entangled dream series: fragmentation, wholeness and the collective unconscious

In the couples there is a war between the best and the second best and in both there arrives a peripheral one, from characters unsummoned.

Iris confesses

Many a mile over land and sea Unsummoned my love returned to me; I remember not the words he said But only the trees moaning overhead.

"Strong traivelling": re-visions of women's subjectivity and female labor in the ballad-work of Elizabeth Siddal

And here is Andre, arriving unsummoned. He steps astutely tableside, bearing saucers stacked in his armcrook and cup-handles hooked on his fingers.

The Renoir is put straight

In "Beirut, 1983," she identifies with a mother bending over her dead baby and declares, "I knew her milk still flowed, unsummoned." She empathizes as readily with Lieutenant Colonel Edward Ledford, a soldier in the desert, as she does with a woman following her husband onto the funeral pyre in suttee.

Uniting and dividing

The prime minister at the time, Haman, had managed to secure a decree legalizing the wholesale slaughter of the Jews; the biblical story tells the tale of how Queen Esther, herself a hidden Jew, courageously -- and successfully -- appeared unsummoned before her husband, King Ahasuerus, to beg for mercy for her people.