"Conjure up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "You may not conjure up any tragic ideas on the subject. She is no outcast. She is here to-night; if there was ...
— The Morgesons • Elizabeth Stoddard
... "you resemble only too closely that which you try to imitate, that which my mouth has been so vile as to conjure up before you. Lay aside those flowers and that dress. Let us wash away such mimicry with a sincere tear; do not remind me that I am but a prodigal son; I remember ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... of the town. Many Government people who are in Calcutta only for the cold weather—I mean those of them who are burdened not with wealth but women-folk—find it cheaper and more convenient to live in a boarding-house. Does that conjure up to you a vision of Bloomsbury, and tall grey houses, and dirty maid-servants, and the Passing of Third Floor Backs? It isn't one bit like that. This boarding-house consists, oddly enough, of four big houses all ...
— Olivia in India • O. Douglas
... breath, evidently overcome by the importance of his message, and unable to conjure up words wholly satisfactory ...
— Keith of the Border • Randall Parrish
... fixes saving truth in the forms of familiar things, that it may be carried away and kept. We look with lively interest on the scene which these words conjure up before our eyes; but we should look on it reverently: it has not been given to us as a plaything. Gaze gravely, brother, into this parable, for "thou art the man" of whom it speaks: it reveals the way of life and the way of death ...
— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot
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