Anyone who thinks men are only ones conjuring up lurid, graphic fantasies about other passengers on the subway is deluded.
When he talked with people he always wore a sweet smile, but he was conjuring up evil ideas in his mind.
The special location dispositions in Shanhai Jing (a famous geography work in ancient China) fail to agree with modern cartology but coincide with the soothsaying and conjuring tradition in ancient times.
He amused the kids with conjuring tricks.
given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead.
Madam Pomfrey, who seemed to have pulled herself together, ran forward, conjuring a chair from thin air, which she pushed under McGonagall.
The fear I refer to is the type that causes us to stay awake at night conjuring up all the terrible things that could happen because of the unsolved problems we're facing.
He is good at conjuring with silver COINS.
They have been encouraged to draw the old ways andto let their imagination runfree in conjuring up spirits, as these subjects areintensely interesting to southerners.
Broadly speaking, conjuring refers to a black folk tradition (sometimes known as "hoodoo" or "voodoo") in which a person possessing magical powers works spells, often using roots and herbs.
He has been conjuring with silver coins for the past 10 years
Mr Sante, conjuring a city that has survived many different kinds of violence before the terrorist attacks of November 13th, reminds the reader that this could not be further from the truth.
The most difficult, because as the plot is essentially predetermined, the writer needs skill to keep the momentum going, conjuring up original, complex characters and vivid scene-setting.
The act of conjuring up a spirit by incantation.
In conjuring tricks, a few incantations must be uttered to make the mystery more mysterious and mysterious. The poet is inevitably somewhat of a hero, a ghost, a dreamer and a blossom. There is always a certain amount of eccentricity between Yin and Yang.
Every day a different chef will be conjuring up delicious dishes in the restaurant.
Usually, the comic dialogues, performing bears, conjuring, clapper ballads, acrobatics, folk-songs and stories told to the accompaniment of drums could all give him genuine pleasure and make him open his big mouth in a smile.
Holbrooke could be downright nasty with those who got in his way, conjuring up an appallingly obscene nickname for one top U.N. official he disliked.
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