"You'd been at the front door together, trying to summon his father."

In a moment he would try to summon the will to sit up and look at his watch.

He tried to summon the feeling back, but was unsuccessful.

"Every day I try to summon more, to feed the land."

He sat there, shaking, trying to summon strength to get up and out of the car.

She tried to summon personal memories of the dead man.

Should she wait, or try to summon Kevin to attend her?

He seemed quite tired, and yet I sensed him trying to summon a response.

Instead, I stared hard at him, trying to summon enough will to influence.

She then took a deep breath and tried to summon her strength for another day.