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While most of the designers were evoking images of the celluloid past or far-flung lands, Marc Bohan for the House of Dior chose his motifs from a nearer era�France's Belle Epoque.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or rather, baffled in their endeavour, they were evoking out of the unseen, heaven knew what fantastic structure of intrigue—scrawling over the innocent page with burning evidences of perfidy and collusion....

From The Fruit of the Tree by Kimball, Alonzo

At last he stood in the sunlight, with his arms outstretched, as though he were evoking his vision from the heavens to take shape upon the stage.

From Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists by Cannan, Gilbert

Desire, dreams, even in him were evoking calculations not as sound as those which ordinarily generated in his brain.

From The Financier, a novel by Dreiser, Theodore