All 6 Uses
conjure
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Ferris Beach
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- By then I had read the biography of Helen Keller nine times, each time finding something new, each time working on the alphabet on the last page, each time conjuring what was left of my memory of Angela.†
Chpt 1conjuring = summoning into action or bringing into existence
- I sat there and listened, with the whole house smelling of chocolate and marsh-mallow, rain pelting the kitchen window to the beat of Buddy Holly, and Misty poring over the long lean girls on the cover of Seventeen, futilely conjuring ways for us to become more desirable than anyone else in the seventh grade.†
Chpt 3
- Just the sound of her name, on my mother's tongue, in Sally's ear, seemed to conjure an image that left both of them quieter.†
Chpt 11conjure = summon into action or bring into existence
- I asked, conjuring my own picture, a seventeen-year-old Angela, her auburn hair swinging shoulder length; I imagined white socks and saddle shoes as she raced out onto an empty football field to meet him, tall and thin with pale green eyes, and all the while she was trying to decide how she was going to break the news to him, this accident that had happened, this accident of a child who she would have to get rid of in some way or another if he didn't marry her.†
Chpt 16conjuring = summoning into action or bringing into existence
- Somehow the calming sense of peace, which I could conjure while in my bed or while looking at the tombstones from my window, disappeared and I was left with a sudden sense of panic, the same as when I crept through the gates that other night, the night Buddy was born.†
Chpt 19conjure = summon into action or bring into existence
- 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,
Chpt 28 *conjure = bring into existence
Definitions:
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(1)
(conjure) summon into action or bring into existence -- often as if by magic
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)