All 4 Uses of
evoke
in
The Age of Innocence
- At length she returned with a lamp; and Archer, having meanwhile put together a phrase out of Dante and Petrarch, evoked the answer: "La signora e fuori; ma verra subito"; which he took to mean: "She's out—but you'll soon see."†
Chpt 9 *
- Perhaps the glimpse, among the anonymous spectators in the transept, of a dark coil of hair under a hat which, a moment later, revealed itself as belonging to an unknown lady with a long nose, so laughably unlike the person whose image she had evoked that he asked himself if he were becoming subject to hallucinations.†
Chpt 19
- What its menace meant he could not guess: but he was sufficiently warned by the fact that Madame Olenska's name had evoked it.†
Chpt 26
- Sitting alone at night in his library, after the household had gone to bed, he had evoked the radiant outbreak of spring down the avenues of horse-chestnuts, the flowers and statues in the public gardens, the whiff of lilacs from the flower-carts, the majestic roll of the river under the great bridges, and the life of art and study and pleasure that filled each mighty artery to bursting.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(evoke) to call forth or cause -- typically to arouse an emotion or bring a memory to mind