Summoning event

Usage examples of seance.

Friday morning, that is, the day after the accursed seance, all the available staff of the Variety -- the bookkeeper Vassily Stepanovich Lastochkin, two accountants, three typists, both box-office girls, the messengers, ushers, cleaning women -- in short, all those available, were not at their places doing their jobs, but were all sitting on the window-sills looking out on Sadovaya and watching what was going on by the wall of the Variety.

With a salaam, Mahatma Xanadu polished the all-revealing crystal and placed it upon a stand to announce the conclusion of a highly successful seance.

Gesturing to two chairs, Xanadu turned back into the seance room and spoke through the door as he closed it.

Akbar was grim enough, but in the gloomy seance room, Mahatma Xanadu outdid his formidable servant.

Having toyed with that dial without result, Lenfield was anxious to see what Xanadu did with it, but the Mahatma simply retired to the seance room, stating that he would receive Lenfield shortly.

Ushering Lenfield into the equally gloomy seance room, Xanadu merely glanced at the dim corners.

Closing the door, Mahatma Xanadu crossed the seance room alone, pocketing the money beneath his garish robe.

I have always had the greatest contempt for such nonsense, and put an end to it years ago when Carrie, at our old house, used to have seances every night with poor Mrs.

I’ve analysed lots of these seances, and I’ve never got answers that someone in the group mightn’t have known or guessed—though sometimes they weren’t aware of the fact.

The talkative lady is Miss Badley, who lives for seances, a jaded Society woman in search of new sensations -- always visible, always audible, and always empty.

Gaines at the tea and the incident during the seance when Carita Belleville had betrayed her annoyance over some remark by Errol.

He had been delighted when she had abandoned the brothel for the more lucrative job of being a spiritual medium, and Sally's seances were now famous in Richmond, a town obsessed with supernatural phenomena, but there was no doubt that her success had more than a little to do with the fact that the darkened shrine of Madame Royall, as Sally now called herself, was attached to Richmond's most notorious house of assignation, a proximity that added the spice of wickedness to her clients' visits.

Just in this same manner, are many slate-writing and other phenomena misreported, and hence an explanation of the seance, AS REPORTED, is rendered impossible.

So I joked about it: my cracked crystal ball - a small time machine I keep in the basement next to my Ouija Board - my seance guiding spirit, Chief Forked Tongue - tea-leaves, but it has to be Black Dragon tea, Lipton's Orange Pekoe doesn't have the right vibrations.

Aurora and the SDF-3 kids were being exactingly recorded, but Obstat and the others were not likely to learn much from the motionless, silently communing seance the rug rats were holding.