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  • Let us use our magic and enchantments to conjure up a woman out of flowers.   (source)
    conjure = summon into existence by magic
  • To conjure several doubles of herself was one thing, but an entire army?   (source)
    conjure = summon into action or bring into existence
  • David conjured a fire.   (source)
    conjured = brought into existence -- as if 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
  • 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)
    conjured = summoned into action or brought 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)
  • But the last image I can conjure up is Peeta shaking his head as the gong rang out.†   (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)
  • Somehow, the game's simple two-sentence room descriptions were able to conjure up vivid images in my mind's eye.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I conjured for him electric skies and iridescent seas and evenings full of laughter and silly jokes.†   (source)
  • The muted crimson lighting unfortunately conjured memories of Langdon's last experience in noninvasive lighting in the Vatican Secret Archives.†   (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)
  • The words sounded strange to him, conjured up from the murky memories of his past.†   (source)
  • The name conjures nothing in von Rumpel's memory.†   (source)
  • My brain had conjured them up at the very moment I was looking at their pictures.†   (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)
  • I have thought on this for years, and I have yet to conjure a scenario where a secret does more good than harm.†   (source)
  • It was not something he could conjure up again.†   (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)
  • Flushing was not the downtown of dreams I'd conjured from the aerogram back in Jullundhar.†   (source)
  • Quiet everybody, our Olympic candidate Gene Forrester, is now going to qualify," it wasn't cider which made me in this moment champion of everything 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Do I have to conjure silence?†   (source)
  • In one short hour she had conjured away the rebellion that had been seething in the girl's mind for weeks.†   (source)
  • In all the world, the name of Ender is one to conjure with.†   (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)
  • The goblin conjured up a fireball around his fist.†   (source)
  • It conjured up images of creeping decay, mold, and other things best left untouched.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 (bone.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • My father played an Encanis so convincing you'd think we'd conjured him.†   (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)
  • Looking at them conjured up a daydream of lips licking my mouth, whispering into my ear, becoming her lips.†   (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 tried to conjure up the most impure thoughts I could.†   (source)
  • Ropes appeared as if conjured, thick ropes used for tying ships to the docks.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I sit on the train and I try to conjure up the killer I saw, but I can't see him any longer.†   (source)
  • I don't suppose you could conjure up some skeleton horses?'†   (source)
  • Saeed conjured up his most endearing grin.†   (source)
  • Conjure up flowers, wind, water, a big rock.†   (source)
  • The music was clearly Caster music, conjuring a spell of its own.†   (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)
  • He walked with confidence and dressed well, conjuring an impression of wealth and achievement.†   (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)
  • Holy water," said Jace, reappearing beside her as if he'd been conjured up like a genie.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It was like she'd conjured up a spell in the icy room, like the rose was a magic wand.†   (source)
  • It conjures images of savages beating drums around a fire.†   (source)
  • She closed her eyes and, against this wasteland, conjured in her mind a scene from Caladan.†   (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)
  • Now she steadied her hand and mind, conjuring the wisdom Precious Auntie might impart like the Wizard.†   (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)
  • And Tris, conjuring weapons out of thin air to attack her worst nightmares.†   (source)
  • Just to think there are people out there who can conjure such things.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Then I inhaled deeply, and one food after another was conjured from the glass bottles.†   (source)
  • Reckon I talked to it so much before I conjured up a mind's eye view of it.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She laughed at the audacity of this, gazing out of the window, her mind conjuring up that faraway time.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Such are the marvels that can be conjured by an agent in search of the next deal.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But that conjures up Poland and Siberia.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • A nightmare creature conjured by the Augurs?†   (source)
  • For a moment I thought she must be an apparition conjured from within my muddled brain.†   (source)
  • Melisandre had given Ales-ter Florent to her god on Dragonstone, to conjure up the wind that bore them north.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It conjured up images of Civil War battles, row after row of men going up and replacing those who had fallen.†   (source)
  • Then I squeeze them shut and conjure up an image of my mother.†   (source)
  • As if Maggie had conjured her, a woman stepped out of the house.†   (source)
  • If the spirit of exterminating vengeance ever arises, it shall be conjured up by them, not me.†   (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 man who was the source of all my smiles can't even conjure one himself now.†   (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)
  • 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 wasn't what you'd call a great cook, but she had a talent for conjuring something out of nothing.†   (source)
  • If I could conjure up a storm and a minor shipwreck for you, I would.†   (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)
  • She'd cussed and sworn and called the darkness every name her mind could conjure up.†   (source)
  • This one can conjure up enough substance to sit solidly throughout a night.†   (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)
  • Other than a few creepy film noir-type scenes, I can hardly remember Grandma Gardella, can barely conjure her face.†   (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'm conjuring you up in my mind!†   (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)
  • 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)
  • -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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 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)
  • I mean, who needs words when colors and lines conjure up their own language?†   (source)
  • He stimulated the cadre's creative powers as they conjured up new and inexorable methods to assault the human spirit.†   (source)
  • And indeed, few northern soldiers conjured up such a scenario.†   (source)
  • My mind started conjuring up images of a medieval dungeon.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • And while I sit there, baiting a poor unimaginative woman with the word, that freaky boy tries to conjure the reality!†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • But can you conjure a force of the size we'll need, Princess?" asked General Doppelganger.†   (source)
    conjure = summon into action or bring into existence
  • To conjure an army she would need to be extremely focused and precise.†   (source)
  • I don't say anything, but I can't help wondering whether it is, because if I close my eyes I can conjure up the feeling that comes to me when I'm on the edge of sleep, which jolts me back into wakefulness.†   (source)
  • Lunar hours passed and, at first, Alyss was all too aware of her efforts to conjure, all too aware of the items she attempted to imagine into being.†   (source)
  • She hadn't intended to conjure such a thing, had only tried to imagine Dodge safely out of the spider's sticky clutches.†   (source)
  • I'll conjure a dozen tarty tarts.†   (source)
  • Understand that I'm just an extremely learned albino and you needn't listen to me, but I suggest you conjure an Alice Liddell of genuine flesh and blood and personality.†   (source)
  • The nymphs had conjured assorted weapons.†   (source)
  • Just see how much of home she could conjure up.†   (source)
  • Dumbledore stood up and gave Mrs Figg his chair, conjuring a second one for himself.†   (source)
  • Killer fish gathering in the dark conjured images of the press gathering outside.†   (source)
  • I can conjure them but they are mirages only, they don't last.†   (source)
  • But she conjured a happy mask and put it on.†   (source)
  • He'll be no better off than the magician who conjured up a flower maiden for his nephew.†   (source)
  • I think she must have been praying in there, or conjuring: conjuring Mother back.†   (source)
  • She must first protect her sister against him, and then find ways of conjuring him safely on paper.†   (source)
  • But with Meg's pulse throwing me off, the only tune I could conjure was the "Chicken Dance."†   (source)
  • It would awaken the nation to the power of architecture to conjure beauty from stone and steel.†   (source)
  • That Washington was a conjure man, for sure.†   (source)
  • The image he conjured, however, was no help.†   (source)
  • If you can conjure a Patronus, you can protect yourself against the world.†   (source)
  • Even the most amateur propagandist could conjure sinister implications.†   (source)
  • Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.†   (source)
  • But night doctors weren't just fictions conjured as scare tactics.†   (source)
  • He closes his eyes briefly, maybe trying to conjure up that sunset, then nods his head.†   (source)
  • 'Yes, but —' 'And yet you conjured a Patronus on the night of the second of August?' said Fudge.†   (source)
  • Langdon's imagination could conjure no set of circumstances that would explain Saunière's behavior.†   (source)
  • Who are the only creatures with the ability to conjure fireballs?†   (source)
  • His name rose from the deep and I didn't want to say it, as if uttering it might conjure him.†   (source)
  • For weeks, really, I could conjure him into being.†   (source)
  • The name conjures for Pari a handsome young face, sideburns, a wall of full dark hair combed back.†   (source)
  • And then, as if he had conjured her, Reynie heard Constance's shrill voice.†   (source)
  • The magical plates could conjure up a great selection of vegetarian stuff.†   (source)
  • Where else would she have learned to conjure it?†   (source)
  • It couldn't walk through the cloud of silver mist Harry had conjured.†   (source)
  • Then they would have been able to put a face on it, and conjure up fury at what had happened.†   (source)
  • I try to conjure, to raise my own spirits, from wherever they are.†   (source)
  • All he could conjure up were fleeting notions: He couldn't stand up.†   (source)
  • I conjured up the image of the old man in the hospital bed, tried to take him back to his childhood.†   (source)
  • Do you conjure up the image in thin air?†   (source)
  • For an instant she thought that Hannah actually had conjured up a vision.†   (source)
  • I tried to conjure other scenes in which she and her father were of two minds.†   (source)
  • Systematically, in her kind, concerned voice she conjured up the macabre future in store for them.†   (source)
  • Bailey paused, as if to allow the two of them to soak in the apt and tidy metaphor he'd conjured.†   (source)
  • Is Harry Potter likely to conjure the Dark Mark?†   (source)
  • After a month in the junkyard, BYU seemed like a dream, something I'd conjured.†   (source)
  • Like the inventors of the elevator, he had conjured an entirely new physical sensation.†   (source)
  • Each one is unique to the wizard who conjures it.†   (source)
  • She appeared as if conjured and took Theodore's hand.†   (source)
  • It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists.†   (source)
  • And Kayla and Austin were quite obviously infected with whatever disease I had conjured up.†   (source)
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