Both Uses of
conjure
in
The House of Mirth
- Then she returned to her calculations; but figure as she would, she could not conjure back the vanished three hundred dollars.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- Her immediate worries conjured, it was easy to resolve that she would never again find herself in such straits, and as the need of economy and self-denial receded from her foreground she felt herself ready to meet any other demand which life might make.†
Chpt 1.7
Definition:
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(conjure) summon into action or bring into existence -- often as if by magic