All 4 Uses of
evoke
in
Bleak House
- And yet I—I, little Esther Summerson, the child who lived a life apart and on whose birthday there was no rejoicing—seemed to arise before my own eyes, evoked out of the past by some power in this fashionable lady, whom I not only entertained no fancy that I had ever seen, but whom I perfectly well knew I had never seen until that hour.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound—strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.†
Chpt 31-33
- "My dear Miss Summerson, here is our friend Richard," said Mr. Skimpole, "full of the brightest visions of the future, which he evokes out of the darkness of Chancery.†
Chpt 37-39
- Sir Leicester considers himself evoked out of the sanctuary by these remarks.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(evoke) to call forth or cause -- typically to arouse an emotion or bring a memory to mind