The tower originally housed a bell for summoning of help.

"summoning the kami", the first part of a typical festival (matsuri).

And Kethry's been summoning, of course, so as usual she's half dead.

Perhaps because of that, I have seldom been able to summon - much less sustain - a viable sense of femininity.

Her Grace can summon anyone instantly, of course.

Does that bulkier word summon images of, say, the old worldly-wise Pan Am?

They summon, of all things, a feeling of community.

They would rise to make their cases like the great lawyers they were, each summoning all his powers of reason and persuasion.

And a serious case, or why this haste and summoning of two doctors?

Now Draffut summoned up what he could of his old powers, concentrating them in his right hand.