All 4 Uses of
evoke
in
The House of Mirth
- Lily, who was intensely practical, would have preferred a fixed allowance; but Mrs. Peniston liked the periodical recurrence of gratitude evoked by unexpected cheques, and was perhaps shrewd enough to perceive that such a method of giving kept alive in her niece a salutary sense of dependence.†
Chpt 1.3
- Lily was acutely aware of her own part in this drama of innuendo: she knew the exact quality of the amusement the situation evoked.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- The air of improvisation was in fact strikingly present: so recent, so rapidly-evoked was the whole MISE-EN-SCENE that one had to touch the marble columns to learn they were not of cardboard, to seat one's self in one of the damask-and-gold arm-chairs to be sure it was not painted against the wall.†
Chpt 1.12
- It may be doubted if such an emotion had ever before been evoked by Carry Fisher's surroundings; but, contrasted to the world in which Lily had lately lived, there was an air of repose and stability in the very placing of the furniture, and in the quiet competence of the parlour-maid who led her up to her room.†
Chpt 2.6
Definition:
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(evoke) to call forth or cause -- typically to arouse an emotion or bring a memory to mind