Somehow conjuring the memory of great blues shouters of a bygone age (Joe Turner, Jimmy Rushing), he never stooped to mere imitation.

Had he somehow conjured a vindictive demon in her place?

The citizen lieutenant immediately stopped laughing, swallowed hard, turned away, and punched the lift button again, as if that could somehow magically conjure the slow-arriving car into existence.

His greatest success came against South Africa in 2004/05, when he took more wickets (13) than any other England bowler, and at Bloemfontein somehow conjured a tie from nowhere.

Silent got on with business, somehow conjuring a brisk, small maid of a breeze that scurried in through the mausoleum door and bustled out again, skirts laden with dust and the smell of death.

"If I didn't know better, I'd say you were a wiz-ard, or else you somehow conjured the baggage by saying her name," she said sourly.

Chapple has dragged his side through the season and somehow conjured out of it a County Championship title, winning games by the skin of their teeth.

But you'll be useful ... I knew in a lightning stroke of insight that it was a demon, a mind-devourer conjured somehow by the dying Victor.

He was subtly ridiculing some of his mystical colleagues who liked to proclaim that conscious observers somehow conjure the real world into existence.

Johnson begged the matcher to somehow conjure a new placement.