1. summon - Noun
2. summon - Verb
To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up.
To give notice to, or command to appear, as in court; to cite by authority; as, to summon witnesses.
To call upon to surrender, as a fort.
Source: Webster's dictionarySo many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. Christopher Reeve
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. Arthur Miller
This is the place. Stand still, my steed, Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it. Edna O'Brien
With money one may command devils; without it, one cannot even summon a man. Chinese Proverb
One man can summon the future. Vulcan Proverb