L. He invokes Hallam's spirit to be near him in his various moods of distress-when he is filled with nervous apprehensions, when faith seems gone, and Time to be only "a maniac scattering dust," and Life to be "a Fury slinging flame:" when men also appear to be no more than flies, that sting and weave their cells and die.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
Finally, in the name of the unlimited truth, the limited opportunity, the one duty which confronts him now, the People whose support, in his performance of it, he may claim for the first time, he forbids the Emperor's coming, and invokes Salinguerra's protection for the Guelph cause.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
It was formerly held, and is still held by some physiologists, that the chief characteristic of life is the disproportion between an excitation and the response which it invokes from the organism.
"The Mechanism of Life"
Stéphane Leduc