All 12 Uses
evoke
in
Love in the Time of Cholera
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- And she was glad, because she preferred to evoke her dead lover as he had asked her to the night before, when he stopped writing the letter he had already begun and looked at her for the last time.†
Chpt 1evoke = call forth or cause
- That treasure lying in its bed of coral, and the corpse of the commander floating sideways on the bridge, were evoked by historians as an emblem of the city drowned in memories.†
Chpt 1evoked = called forth or caused
- The incident, of course, gave them the opportunity to evoke many other trivial quarrels from many other dim and turbulent dawns.†
Chpt 1 *evoke = call forth or cause
- Kept awake by the gunfire whizzing over the roofs, she continued to evoke her husband's excellent qualities until daybreak, not reproaching him for any disloyalty other than his having died without her, which was mitigated by her conviction that he had never belonged to her as much as he did now that he was in the coffin nailed shut with a dozen three-inch nails and two meters under the ground.†
Chpt 3
- The lighthouse was always a blessed refuge in a storm, which he evoked with nostalgia in the dawn of his old age when he had everything settled, because it was a good place to be happy, above all at night, and he thought that something of his loves from that time flashed out to the sailors with every turn of the light.†
Chpt 4evoked = called forth or caused
- That is why he evoked with such great nostalgia the old trolley with its emaciated mules covered with sores, in which a sideways glance was all one needed to know where love was.†
Chpt 4
- He was certain she would recognize his handwriting, and that then she would evoke the afternoons of embroidery under the almond trees in the little park, the scent of faded gardenias in his letters, the private Waltz of the Crowned Goddess at windblown daybreak.†
Chpt 4evoke = call forth or cause
- He was not the pitiable phantom who had haunted her in the Park of the Evangels and whom she had evoked with a certain tenderness after she had grown old, but the hateful phantom with his executioner's frock coat and his hat held against his chest, whose thoughtless impertinence had disturbed her so much that she found it impossible not to think about him.†
Chpt 6evoked = called forth or caused
- She evoked him as she evoked the day she had sent her first telegram, and she could never erase from her heart the memory of the sad little bird condemned to oblivion.†
Chpt 6
- She evoked him as she evoked the day she had sent her first telegram, and she could never erase from her heart the memory of the sad little bird condemned to oblivion.†
Chpt 6
- Fermina Daza could not help it: all that seemed like children's games to her, most of all when Florentino Ariza insisted on evoking the afternoons of melancholy verses in the Park of the Evangels, the letters hidden along her route to school, the embroidery lessons under the almond trees.†
Chpt 6evoking = calling forth or causing
- This was, according to her, the reason for his haste and constant blundering as he evoked the past.†
Chpt 6evoked = called forth or caused
Definitions:
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(1)
(evoke) to call forth or cause -- typically to arouse an emotion or bring a memory to mind
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)