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summons up

vb. (en-third-person singular of: summon up)

Usage examples of "summons up".

He summons up the memory of birds, lizards, of the lines of ducks overhead, of flat corncakes cooked on a hot griddle, the taste of savory beans, the memory of Miriam, Joshua, Songbird as they were, once, long ago.

She relies so strongly on her power over the king's disposition, that she often summons up courage even to contradict him, and to set her own will in opposition to his.

Seeing that missis Savage is smiling so warmly at her, with an air almost of expectation, Graice Courtney summons up her ingenuity to say thoughtfully, History can be interpreted, some theorists think, as the story of just a few individuals' destinies.