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  • It was strange the way I felt about
    him: connected was the only word I could conjure up.   (source)
    conjure = think of (summon into action from his mind)
  • Let us use our magic and enchantments to conjure up a woman out of flowers.   (source)
    conjure = summon into existence by magic
  • We were messing about in the night again and we were praying and conjuring and Danny found it running under his feet.   (source)
    conjuring = summoning into action or bringing into existence -- as if by magic
  • Merle had once said that it might be good for him to be some place where no one had heard of his family, where the very mention of his name didn't conjure an image,   (source)
    conjure = bring into existence
  • It was just like a conjuring-trick, she thought.   (source)
    conjuring = bringing something into existence as if by magic
  • We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to...   (source)
    conjured = implored (asked) solemnly
  • My brain conjured so many scenes of disaster, it burned as if with a fever.†   (source)
  • I tried to conjure Ali's frozen face, to really see his tranquil eyes, but time can be a greedy thing—sometimes it steals all the details for itself.†   (source)
  • But the last image I can conjure up is Peeta shaking his head as the gong rang out.†   (source)
  • They conjured up the scene in such vivid detail that somehow their stomachs were fooled by it, if only briefly.†   (source)
  • They wanted real bodies, to fit onto the bodies conjured up for them by words.†   (source)
  • His mind's eye conjured the sight of Tinder thrashing on his back, spear of glass glinting both above and below.†   (source)
  • Silence from her, being shut out by her, is the worst punishment she could conjure up.†   (source)
  • I just conjured him.†   (source)
  • To me, the word ameh still conjures up feelings of being enveloped with love.†   (source)
  • My imagination conjured up horrors.†   (source)
  • To many analysts, terms like "welfare queen" conjure unfair images of the lazy black mom living on the dole.†   (source)
  • If only he knew how to conjure a smile back onto her face.†   (source)
  • But there were nights when I'd wake up in the small hours and find myself thinking of the other Wes Moore, conjuring his image as best I could, a man my age lying on a cot in a prison cell, burdened by regret, trying to sleep through another night surrounded by the walls he'd escape only at death.†   (source)
  • Somehow, the game's simple two-sentence room descriptions were able to conjure up vivid images in my mind's eye.†   (source)
  • Putting aside the fact that I am a Hindu and we Hindus consider cows sacred, eating a leather boot conjures to my mind eating all the filth that a foot might exude in addition to all the filth it might step in while shod.†   (source)
  • The muted crimson lighting unfortunately conjured memories of Langdon's last experience in noninvasive lighting in the Vatican Secret Archives.†   (source)
  • 1 was trying to shake off the dark feeling that the morning's events had conjured when the officers brought Walter into the courtroom.†   (source)
  • The words sounded strange to him, conjured up from the murky memories of his past.†   (source)
  • I conjured for him electric skies and iridescent seas and evenings full of laughter and silly jokes.†   (source)
  • If you have mastered the material, then the proper phrase will conjure it — like the magic words that coax a genie from a bottle.†   (source)
  • Dr. Richard Stone, head of the Tropical Diseases Laboratory of Columbia University Medical Center, often remarked that the name conjured up a grander place than it actually was.†   (source)
  • I had trouble conjuring up these thoughts, and when I finally ventured into these memories, I became so sad that the bones in my body started to ache.†   (source)
  • In my mind I conjure up a memory of her face, soft and beautiful and concerned, her eyes bright blue and her mouth rosy and smiling.†   (source)
  • Flushing was not the downtown of dreams I'd conjured from the aerogram back in Jullundhar.†   (source)
  • The name conjures nothing in von Rumpel's memory.†   (source)
  • …he ordered, to run as though I were the abstraction of speed, to walk the half-circle of statues on my hands, to balance on my head on top of the icebox on top of the Prize Table, to jump if he had asked it across the Naguamsett and land crashing in the middle of Quackenbush's boathouse, to accept at the end of it amid a clatter of applause—for on this day even the schoolboy egotism of Devon was conjured away—a wreath made from the evergreen trees which Phineas placed on my head.†   (source)
  • As sweet as the evening air, this talk moved through and round her, conjuring a world of good intentions and pleasant outcomes.†   (source)
  • My brain had conjured them up at the very moment I was looking at their pictures.†   (source)
  • Or best of all, you can conjure up the illusion that the Baudelaire parents have not been killed, and that the terrible fire and Count Olaf and Uncle Monty and all the other unfortunate events are nothing more than a dream, a figment of the imagination.†   (source)
  • In one short hour she had conjured away the rebellion that had been seething in the girl's mind for weeks.†   (source)
  • He comes to prefer certain sofas and chairs to others; when he is not there, he can conjure the paintings and photographs arrayed on the walls.†   (source)
  • Ropes appeared as if conjured, thick ropes used for tying ships to the docks.†   (source)
  • Some of the stories were conjured by white plantation owners taking advantage of the long-held African belief that ghosts caused disease and death.†   (source)
  • In all the world, the name of Ender is one to conjure with.†   (source)
  • I roll my eyes, trying to conjure up Hana's nonchalance, even though my palms are sweating and my heart is jerking around in my chest.†   (source)
  • She wasn't what you'd call a great cook, but she had a talent for conjuring something out of nothing.†   (source)
  • Do I have to conjure silence?†   (source)
  • The goblin conjured up a fireball around his fist.†   (source)
  • It conjured up images of (bone. blood.†   (source)
  • It's more like a great big yard than a ranch, It's the way we always refer to it, but I guess that conjures up the wrong image, huh?†   (source)
  • They weren't news to anybody else, but they made such an impression on me that I felt I'd conjured them into being.†   (source)
  • It conjured up images of creeping decay, mold, and other things best left untouched.†   (source)
  • And all of us with our closed eyes smelled the frangipani blossoms in the big rectangles of open wall, flowers so sweet they conjure up sin or heaven, depending on which way you are headed.†   (source)
  • Now she steadied her hand and mind, conjuring the wisdom Precious Auntie might impart like the Wizard.†   (source)
  • He throws the first ball high in the air, and as it reaches its apex, I try to conjure a power deep within me to keep it from falling.†   (source)
  • Where I floated, under the dark water, I heard the happiest sound my mind could conjure up — as beautiful, as uplifting, as it was ghastly.†   (source)
  • Conjure up flowers, wind, water, a big rock.†   (source)
  • He walked with confidence and dressed well, conjuring an impression of wealth and achievement.†   (source)
  • I have thought on this for years, and I have yet to conjure a scenario where a secret does more good than harm.†   (source)
  • I tried to remember my years of servitude with Admetus and Laomedon, but I could barely conjure their names and faces.†   (source)
  • Then I inhaled deeply, and one food after another was conjured from the glass bottles.†   (source)
  • Looking at them conjured up a daydream of lips licking my mouth, whispering into my ear, becoming her lips.†   (source)
  • It was like she'd conjured up a spell in the icy room, like the rose was a magic wand.†   (source)
  • Just to think there are people out there who can conjure such things.†   (source)
  • With a desultory nod of his bored and sleepy head, the Level Crossing Divinity conjured up beggars with bandages, men with trays selling pieces of fresh coconut, parippu vadas on banana leaves.†   (source)
  • Holy water," said Jace, reappearing beside her as if he'd been conjured up like a genie.†   (source)
  • I turned out to be among the minority of patients who could benefit from what is called the "Whipple operation," named for a doctor who in the 1930s conjured up this complicated procedure.†   (source)
  • Each was accompanied by waves of delight and joy but he wasn't sure if they were real or a hallucination conjured up by collisions between some damaged or otherwise wayward neurons and the drugs coursing through his veins.†   (source)
  • I sit on the train and I try to conjure up the killer I saw, but I can't see him any longer.†   (source)
  • My father played an Encanis so convincing you'd think we'd conjured him.†   (source)
  • She closed her eyes and, against this wasteland, conjured in her mind a scene from Caladan.†   (source)
  • After conjuring up this vision of a Qualityless world, he was soon attracted to its resemblance to a number of social situations he had already read about.†   (source)
  • I tried to conjure up the most impure thoughts I could.†   (source)
  • It was not something he could conjure up again.†   (source)
  • The same thing happened the other way around: only by conjuring up an intense feeling of one day being dead could she appreciate how terribly good it was to be alive.†   (source)
  • Reckon I talked to it so much before I conjured up a mind's eye view of it.†   (source)
  • All the time she talked to me, I saw Mr. Manzi standing on thin air in back of Jay Cee's head, like something conjured up out of a hat, holding his little wooden ball and the test tube that billowed a great cloud of yellow smoke the day before Easter vacation and smelt of rotten eggs and made all the girls and Mr. Manzi laugh.†   (source)
  • Saeed conjured up his most endearing grin.†   (source)
  • It conjures images of savages beating drums around a fire.†   (source)
  • You are asking me to conjure up a solution to a mystery that the police and experienced investigators with considerably greater resources have failed to solve all these years.†   (source)
  • But that conjures up Poland and Siberia.†   (source)
  • My imagination had conjured up a pair of ruthless eyes behind a ski mask Now that I was positive he wasn't a figment of my imagination, I had an overwhelming desire to tell my mom everything, from the way he'd jumped on the Neon to his role as Vee's attacker.†   (source)
  • And Tris, conjuring weapons out of thin air to attack her worst nightmares.†   (source)
  • Dewey called him a liar, and then, conjuring a card that in prior consultation the four detectives had agreed to play face down, told him, "We have a living witness, Perry.†   (source)
  • For a moment I thought she must be an apparition conjured from within my muddled brain.†   (source)
  • Then I squeeze them shut and conjure up an image of my mother.†   (source)
  • A nightmare creature conjured by the Augurs?†   (source)
  • "We thought America would be like this," Alex said, pantomiming a magician with a wand and flicking it at the table to conjure something out of the ether.†   (source)
  • Howard was just an ordinary person, almost scrawny and beginning to go bald, yet he was mysteriously compelling too, conjured perhaps from her own deep loneliness and wishing.†   (source)
  • Such are the marvels that can be conjured by an agent in search of the next deal.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.†   (source)
  • I could of course conjure up every one of those instances in perfect detail, right down to the chewy tang of those ribs and how good that beer had tasted.†   (source)
  • Before he got around to it he fed the crew a normal meal of beefsteak and beans and even conjured up a stew whose ingredients were mysterious but which all agreed was excellent.†   (source)
  • In a respectable beauty shop like Sapor's, they are not sexual, but for a girl with Neth's past, the notion of administering any kind of massage conjured horrible memories.†   (source)
  • "But I do believe in the power of young girls' minds to conjure all sorts of hobgoblins that have nothing to do with the occult and everything to do with very real mischief.†   (source)
  • "That was no big thing," I said, trying to conjure up my bold self, to hear that whooshing again that made me rise above it all, immune.†   (source)
  • Ali held it under Mortenson's nose with one hand and fanned his other hand underneath, conjuring the Kaghan Valley, the pristine pine forest from which it had recently departed.†   (source)
  • I rest my head against the headrest and close my eyes, attempting to conjure up a loophole in our situation.†   (source)
  • It conjured up images of Civil War battles, row after row of men going up and replacing those who had fallen.†   (source)
  • I'm conjuring you up in my mind!†   (source)
  • The man who was the source of all my smiles can't even conjure one himself now.†   (source)
  • The truth was that we knew all too well that ghosts existed—the ones Aphrodite had conjured a month ago had almost killed my human ex-boyfriend.†   (source)
  • But if you're going to do any more tumbling, or conjuring, or whatever it was, you'd best warn folk beforehand — and warn _me.†   (source)
  • She stopped thinking about Pedro Tercero Garcia with the terrible urgency she had felt before and took refuge in the sweet, faded memories she could always conjure up at will.†   (source)
  • Perhaps in this moment he was remembering the shame of that year and conjuring in his mind how fine my bride-price might be and what it would do for our family.†   (source)
  • The music was clearly Caster music, conjuring a spell of its own.†   (source)
  • He knows the teacher is just fussing, walking through a few meaningless maneuvers while he tries to conjure a worthwhile response to what Cedric just said.†   (source)
  • I had rehearsed what I would say so many times that I had been sure I would not forget my little speech, but confronted with Mr. Grumbloch's perpetual frown and sharp blue eyes, I could only conjure up three words: "I'm not Valerie."†   (source)
  • That is why Tereza, when she met the chairman of the collective farm at the spa, conjured up an image of the countryside (a countryside she had never lived in or known) that she found enchanting.†   (source)
  • She laughed at the audacity of this, gazing out of the window, her mind conjuring up that faraway time.†   (source)
  • As if Maggie had conjured her, a woman stepped out of the house.†   (source)
  • She'd cussed and sworn and called the darkness every name her mind could conjure up.†   (source)
  • I knew I'd always be able to recite his qualities--kind, gentle, smart, funny--but I wanted to be able to conjure up the physical man in my mind, as fully as possible, when he was gone.†   (source)
  • The stories were important, serious, in a time when the word reporter did not conjure images of some doofus asking a woman with a ring in her nose why she professed love to a man with a giant safety pin through his eyebrow and claimed that he once glimpsed Elvis in a plate of scrambled eggs.†   (source)
  • Was he in some nightmare so real he had entered its dimensions, the horror of demented sleep, the fantasy of conjured, improvised terror turned into reality?†   (source)
  • If the spirit of exterminating vengeance ever arises, it shall be conjured up by them, not me.†   (source)
  • I closed my eyes and conjured the feel of Mr. Viccars's hands landing gently on my waist and tightening their grip there.†   (source)
  • She conjured life in her mind from the photograph she'd seen in Tom's room, the beautiful face with its dark eyes and glossy tumble of hair.†   (source)
  • I mean, who needs words when colors and lines conjure up their own language?†   (source)
  • He sat for a minute or two with his eyes closed, breathing deeply, trying to conjure, in his mind's eye, an image of surf breaking on the beach at Santa Monica.†   (source)
  • I had hung between possibilities before, between the cold truths I knew and the heart-sucking conjuring tricks of the Shaper; now that was passed: I was Grendel, Ruiner of Meadhalls, Wrecker of Kings!†   (source)
  • Just promise that you won't conjure up Mrs. Millen again.†   (source)
  • Melisandre had given Ales-ter Florent to her god on Dragonstone, to conjure up the wind that bore them north.†   (source)
  • I instantly regret asking this question as it conjures up an image of him with a painfully beautiful angel wife with little cherubs running around some estate with Grecian pillars.†   (source)
  • When he heard her scream, a dozen agonizing images rushed into his head, images that he'd seen and lived through, images that only someone who had could conjure up.†   (source)
  • He stimulated the cadre's creative powers as they conjured up new and inexorable methods to assault the human spirit.†   (source)
  • -and his horde of lunatic abolitionists had descended upon the scene, conjuring up a defense team that would no doubt do all they could to prolong the judicial proceedings for as long as possible.†   (source)
  • Other than a few creepy film noir–type scenes, I can hardly remember Grandma Gardella, can barely conjure her face.†   (source)
  • And I could see how my boy needed time and space for a story to bloom in his mind, because at any age what comes before sight is a conjuring.†   (source)
  • When they were gone he fell back on his pillowless bed, deeply unhappy, and he tried to think of Rome, to conjure visions of rose-colored buildings and light green palms, of a sun that danced in brassy reflections from rooftop to rooftop, of deep shadows in dense gardens, and the spray of a fountain dancing against a deep blue sky.†   (source)
  • And indeed, few northern soldiers conjured up such a scenario.†   (source)
  • She even called in the old man that they said could conjure, though she doubted that any conjurer in the world could save this child.†   (source)
  • What magical torments could a true and powerful wizard such as Morkai conjure that would outdo the most agonizing of the tortures common throughout the land?†   (source)
  • My mind started conjuring up images of a medieval dungeon.†   (source)
  • She wouldn't let herself conjure up that face looming over her in the dark, or the taste of that hand clamping over her mouth to smother her screams.†   (source)
  • Of all the faces she might conjure from her memory in the moments before her death, his was not the one she had expected.†   (source)
  • This one can conjure up enough substance to sit solidly throughout a night.†   (source)
  • And while I sit there, baiting a poor unimaginative woman with the word, that freaky boy tries to conjure the reality!†   (source)
  • I had been lured to this place, on my arrival in New York, not alone by its name—which conjured up an image of Ivy League camaraderie, baize-covered lounge tables littered with copies of the New Republic and Partisan Review, and elderly retainers in frock coats fretting over messages and catering to one's needs—but by its modest rates: ten dollars a week.†   (source)
  • You have just dispensed with the 'viable schizophrenia' you conjured up, and you have now switched over to its pulling through and becoming fully autonomous.†   (source)
  • Anyone who clings to the historically untrue — and thoroughly immoral — doctrine that 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it.†   (source)
  • Do you remember that soldier's wife who conjured away your pain?†   (source)
  • ...there have been brief, very brief periods when I have conjured up remembrances which...   (source)
    conjured = summoned into existence
  • Dumbledore stood up and gave Mrs Figg his chair, conjuring a second one for himself.†   (source)
  • I can conjure them but they are mirages only, they don't last.†   (source)
  • Killer fish gathering in the dark conjured images of the press gathering outside.†   (source)
  • Just see how much of home she could conjure up.†   (source)
  • The word conjured up images of the Spanish Inquisition, of torture, the whip and the rack.†   (source)
  • With another flick of his hand, he conjured a glowing coffin around our dad.†   (source)
  • That Washington was a conjure man, for sure.†   (source)
  • The name conjures for Pari a handsome young face, sideburns, a wall of full dark hair combed back.†   (source)
  • Bailey paused, as if to allow the two of them to soak in the apt and tidy metaphor he'd conjured.†   (source)
  • For weeks, really, I could conjure him into being.†   (source)
  • He'll be no better off than the magician who conjured up a flower maiden for his nephew.†   (source)
  • But night doctors weren't just fictions conjured as scare tactics.†   (source)
  • For an instant she thought that Hannah actually had conjured up a vision.†   (source)
  • If I had the power to conjure them at my birthday celebration ….†   (source)
  • He closes his eyes briefly, maybe trying to conjure up that sunset, then nods his head.†   (source)
  • She appeared as if conjured and took Theodore's hand.†   (source)
  • And then, as if he had conjured her, Reynie heard Con-stance's shrill voice.†   (source)
  • Langdon's imagination could conjure no set of circumstances that would explain Saunière's behavior.†   (source)
  • Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.†   (source)
  • 'And yet you conjured a Patronus on the night of the second of August?' said Fudge.†   (source)
  • All he could conjure up were fleeting notions: He couldn't stand up.†   (source)
  • If you can conjure a Patronus, you can protect yourself against the world.†   (source)
  • It couldn't walk through the cloud of silver mist Harry had conjured.†   (source)
  • The image he conjured, however, was no help.†   (source)
  • Who are the only creatures with the ability to conjure fireballs?†   (source)
  • He felt as if he had conjured the sun to come out at night.†   (source)
  • That I had drunk too much of my own wine, and this was the fear it conjured.†   (source)
  • Even the most amateur propagandist could conjure sinister implications.†   (source)
  • Then they would have been able to put a face on it, and conjure up fury at what had happened.†   (source)
  • I think she must have been praying in there, or conjuring: conjuring Mother back.†   (source)
  • I tried to conjure other scenes in which she and her father were of two minds.†   (source)
  • I try to conjure, to raise my own spirits, from wherever they are.†   (source)
  • It would awaken the nation to the power of architecture to conjure beauty from stone and steel.†   (source)
  • Is Harry Potter likely to conjure the Dark Mark?†   (source)
  • It's so hard sometimes to conjure all this up, a strange sort of exhaustion follows.†   (source)
  • Anyway, is it possible to conjure up an image of something that you can't see?†   (source)
  • "Urn," Carter said, "can you conjure any people food?"†   (source)
  • His name rose from the deep and I didn't want to say it, as if uttering it might conjure him.†   (source)
  • But with Meg's pulse throwing me off, the only tune I could conjure was the "Chicken Dance."†   (source)
  • But she conjured a happy mask and put it on.†   (source)
  • And Kayla and Austin were quite obviously infected with whatever disease I had conjured up.†   (source)
  • He was conjuring stretchers and lifting the limp forms of Harry, Hermione, and Black onto them.†   (source)
  • She must first protect her sister against him, and then find ways of conjuring him safely on paper.†   (source)
  • After a month in the junkyard, BYU seemed like a dream, something I'd conjured.†   (source)
  • It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists.†   (source)
  • We conjured a hundred more demons today.†   (source)
  • Like the inventors of the elevator, he had conjured an entirely new physical sensation.†   (source)
  • It was as if thinking about Dart had conjured him up.†   (source)
  • I cannot say, but his face was rapt as he conjured those visions.†   (source)
  • Where else would she have learned to conjure it?†   (source)
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