What is "conjures"

Usage examples of "conjures".

He seemed to think some of our enlisted men had laid down conjures on your father's people so they'd believe all the lies about the Queen of England being black and life with the British in Nova Scotia being all roses and ease, so he told me about the value of a frizzled chicken.

Believes with all his great, simple heart that her conjures can cause a person to sicken and die.

Even keeping them on my side of the creek doesn't prevent my niggers from knowing that old Sofy conjures anybody she hates.

Still, unsure as he was about the nonsense of conjures, it was up to him somehow to put a stop to Sofy's mischief in case she was workingagainst Roswell King.

When she had told John about Sofy's conjures, he had smiled the same, merely amused smile.

It either melts prematurely or conjures up diabolical weather patterns to preserve what resources it has.

For while his trained scientific eyes trace the pattern of ancient stains on this sacrificial stone, his mind's eye conjures up the ghostly images of many strong hands holding the prone naked body of a struggling young woman as a gleaming blade descends slowly to disappear into her breast's soft flesh and release a flood of warm red blood from her pounding heart.

His eyes close, and his brain conjures up a motion-picture scene of a tall nude woman warrior with soft white skin and piercing blue eves charging in front of a group of shrieking brown savages, brandishing spears and sharp machetes.

For Eliza, the smell of solvent conjures up rival feelings of love and frustration.

Instead, “origami” conjures its opposite, a shape created by a seemingly endless unfolding, leaving room for nothing else.

Mackintosh conjures a picture of his old colleague mounting a nubile nineteen year old.

Thinking of her conjures her scent, making the memory of her all the more vivid.