Read full poem →or why her tiniest whispered invitation
is like a clock striking in a dark house
Dictionary Entry
The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.
In a Sentence
“an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. invitationinvitation kind
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Poetry examples for “invitation”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And kindly ask it in --
Whose invitation, know you not
For Whom I must decline?
Read full poem →places behind the German lines, the German idea of an
invitation to the Yankees to go across and be comfort-
able se se
Read full poem →"Dante's tomb, the classical pinewood," and so forth, had afforded a
pretext for the invitation to be given and accepted, and, at length,
when she was, as she imagined, "at the point of death," he arrived,
Read full poem →of an Author's Bed-chamber 130 Song, from the Comedy of "She Stoops to
Conquer" 131 Answer to an Invitation to Dinner. 133 Song, intended to
have been sung in "She Stoops to Conquer" 135 From the Latin of Vida
Read full poem →The Captivity. An Oratorio
Verses in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner
Letter in Prose and Verse to Mrs. Bunbury
Read full poem →ANSWER TO AN INVITATION TO DINNER. 133
Read full poem →[Illustration: ANSWER TO AN INVITATION TO PASS THE CHRISTMAS AT
BARTON.[48]]
Read full poem →[Illustration: ANSWER TO AN INVITATION TO DINNER.]