There is quite enough difficulty before us, without conjuring up new complications, cried Massingbred.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Two former friends and fellow-Tuscans, Cardinal Acciajuoli and Abate Panciatichi, have come to prepare him for execution; but the one is listening awe-struck to the only kind of confession which they can obtain from him, while the other plies his beads in a desperate endeavour to exorcise the spiritual enemy, "ban" the diabolical influences, it is conjuring up.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Then she would make believe she was going to ask daddy to let them be married right away, insisting that two rooms were enough for them, and that she herself would do the washing and ironing and the cooking, at which Jack would laugh over the joy of it all, conjuring up in his mind the pattern of apron she would wear and how pretty her bare arms would be bending over the tub, knowing all the time that he would no more have allowed her to do any one of these things than he would have permitted her to chop the winter's wood.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith