| 单词 | illusive |
| 例句 | There were no shadows under the trees but everywhere a pearly stillness, so that what was real seemed illusive and without definition. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “Photoshop allows us to achieve our unobtainable standards of beauty, but when we compare those standards on a global scale, achieving the ideal remains all the more illusive.” This Is What the Same Woman Looks Like Photoshopped in Different Countries 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z We have a true vulgarian monster occupying the White House while abused women are finally getting their illusive stage for complaint. Is Woody Allen a Great Filmmaker? Discuss 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Planes crashed into buildings as if by accident, the tragedy caused by some illusive invisible evil. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z As Mark Darcy, Firth played an illusive dreamboat named after his own television triumph as Austen's hero; Grant's portrayal of the caddish Daniel Cleaver was an amused nod at his own popular persona. Englishmen at 50 2010-09-25T23:07:00Z In this “post-deferential” world we live in, Mr. Bruce writes, “We still have a fascination for, and seek out, the illusive excellence of living; a style that was emblematic of the period.” Books of Style: Holiday Reading, Some Homework Required 2012-12-12T23:23:53Z And what of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the most illusive and therefore most interesting of the philosophical wizards? The Men Who Reinvented Philosophy for Turbulent Times 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Ie the need to create new illusive things for us to do and invest in until it all hits the buffers of reality, thus boom and bust. Gatsby and the way we live now 2013-05-31T16:27:58Z The internet is still trying to process those final words that are both so obvious and yet so illusive. Let's Talk About That 'Gilmore Girls' Ending 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Rebecca Taylor: "Fall 2011 is inspired by dreamy illusive paintings, blurred images and sparkling lights, conjuring images of dimly lit nights in the chic Parisian night clubs of the '70s." NY Fashion Week ready to turn up the glam factor 2011-02-09T23:01:24Z I imagine in those early days that he may have spent more time hunting for illusive historical documents in that same archive. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z It’s exactly the kind of illusive choice that this mother revolts against. Review | Claire Vaye Watkins’s new novel approaches motherhood — with a torch 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z “It’s just one of my scariest thoughts, that someone would choose this illusive thing over the real people in their lives.” Lisa Kudrow on The Comeback’s groundbreaking satire 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z The edited images they formed were at once figurative and fractured, expressively illusive but inconclusive; painterly while being mostly paint free. Art Review: Romare Bearden at Studio Museum, Schomburg and the Met 2011-12-08T23:44:36Z Guest vocalist Brother Ali drops an illusive, rapid-fire verse that bobs and weaves, a vocal style that fits like a boxing glove alongside Chuck D’s knockout punches and Flav’s incessant jabs. Public Enemy Still Fighting, Still Fresh 2012-07-27T13:22:16Z Misdirected faith and beliefs can be illusive and sometimes dangerous. A take on 'Jesus Revolution' from one who was there, defending Rowling and more 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z “Seldom has the bleakness and despair of American college life been portrayed with such immediacy and truth — the paranoia, the Sisyphean striving, the illusive goals, the strange symbiosis that springs up between student and professor.” John Jay Osborn Jr., author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ dies at age 77 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z She had also charged Salameh’s brother, Raja, for being involved in the formation of three illusive companies in France alongside Ukrainian citizen Anna Kosakova to purchase real estate worth nearly $12 million there. Judge and security forces raid Lebanon’s central bank 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Officials, lawmakers and victims groups have grown frustrated that an explanation remains illusive. U.S. Outlines Compensation Rules for Some Havana Syndrome Victims 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Aoun said that the Salameh brothers and a Ukrainian citizen had formed three illusive companies in France to buy property there. Lebanese judge charges central bank chief with corruption 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z "Every student stepping on campus this upcoming semester will be fully vaccinated with boosters, unless they have received one of the University’s illusive exemptions," Luke Bunting and Elana Quint, co-presidents of the group, wrote. Colleges adding COVID-19 restrictions as classes prepare to resume 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Safety and freedom are illusive in the land of the free, no matter how fast or far that train goes. The 15 best TV shows of the year (so far) 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z “Measuring the effect of those campaigns is often illusive.” Bots hyped up GameStop on major social media platforms, analysis finds 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z That illusive classic, the perfect white shirt is, she concedes, hard to find secondhand, because they are often a bit stained. How to build a secondhand capsule wardrobe 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z In my mind, it was evident before the appearance of COVID-19 that we are fundamentally “monads” as envisioned by the philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, despite illusive notions of empowerment that stem from groupthink. A Sobering Astronomical Reminder from COVID-19 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z Nokes is often asked about variegated Monstera, an illusive botanical unicorn that sells for big bucks online. Caught up in the indoor-gardening craze? The Northwest’s ‘houseplant doula’ offers care-and-feeding tips for new plant parents 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z We must not allow illusive, short-term benefits to outweigh the clear moral imperative to do the right thing. Opinion | Virginia Democrats now have the power and responsibility to fix gerrymandering 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, progress on talks to resolve the 17-month trade dispute with China remains illusive and a trade deal signed with Mexico and Canada is still awaiting ratification by the U.S. Drowning in uncertainty: Trade questions slow investment, squeeze profits across U.S. 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The illusive nature of the turtle means it has been difficult to identify the latter's gender. One of the world's rarest turtles dies 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Yet we’re still willing to take down comedians who overshoot that illusive border, and that list of martyrs is growing. In the crosshairs of outrage: Roseanne, Kathy Griffin and now Kevin Hart. Comedy's shifting red line 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Santa’s scoop: You’re in a foreign country and in desperate need of an illusive bathroom, but you don’t speak the language. Holiday Gift Guide 2018 - Best in learning and edutainment 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z A dark matter particle is proving illusive, what does this mean for physics? Podcast: Mood forecasting technology, and where are the WIMPS? 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The illusive goal of total control Garcia may have been right that removing or disabling most or even some instances of the video could have mitigated her circumstances. The Internet of Garbage by Sarah Jeong 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Clinton’s campaign mainly targeted the illusive “moderate Republican”, the white, middle-aged middle class. Democrats are losing the millennial vote and need to change message | Cas Mudde 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z “To get ahold of them it was like trying to see the wizard,” he said, referencing the illusive wizard in “The Wizard of Oz.” EXCHANGE: Community reacts after college announces closing 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Best extras: With the illusive optional commentary track from Mr. Edwards not to be found, viewers must settle for 11 featurettes offering a total of 73 minutes of background on the movie. Blu-ray review: ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Years of investment manias and financial machinations that powered the job market have lost potency, exposing longstanding downsides of trade that had previously been masked by illusive prosperity. More Wealth, More Jobs, but Not for Everyone: What Fuels the Backlash on Trade 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Fuel-cell power generation has been an illusive target for decades, with a succession of companies unable to realize its business potential. Bloom Energy, Once Valued at $2.9 Billion, Quietly Files IPO Plans 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Using underwater acoustic detection technology, scientists also heard the calls of an unidentified species of illusive beaked whales. NOAA: Drone technology aids whale research off Hawaii 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Children in Syria are hoping "Pokemon Go" users will find them, meanwhile authorities in Bosnia, the once war-torn country, are hoping users don't find landmines instead of illusive characters. Pokemon Go Finds Its Way Into War Zones 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Players taking a break from the main story can also enter any of the unlocked Adventure Worlds such as Oz and Middle-Earth to find a new set of challenges and acquire illusive Gold Bricks. Gaming Gift Guide 2015 : Wii U picks - Lego Dimensions 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z If movement was the tidal surge that filled the West with hopefuls, then the laying down of a wager after that — trying something new rather than moving again — was the illusive force that kept them. Assignment America: Sandpoint, Idaho 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z The previous post focused on how to avoid money mistakes after landing the illusive first job and Monday’s post will talk about planning for retirement. The Psychology Behind Saving in the 21st Century 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Staying right atop that fine line where everything is perfect often becomes the illusive goal. Increase Creativity In Your Business, Unless Everything's Perfect 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z At the same time it injects some irreverent humor illusive to thses bigger competitors who must to adhere to the more conservative rubric of big name brands. 'Sick Bricks' Irreverent Glee Does What Lego Should Have 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Rather than use his executive authority to end the collection, he asked Congress to pass legislation doing so - a feat that’s so far been illusive. NSA Phone Dragnet Weighed by Third Appeals Court 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Some Democrats, forever in search of the illusive silver lining, are counting on a groundswell of anger against the Republicans when they do what they promised to do. WES PRUDEN: Shootout time on the Potomac 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Although the search for the illusive Bigfoot will likely continue, scientists hope believers will at least step up their game. DNA Analysis Debunks Bigfoot Myth, Points to Unknown Bear Species 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z The scientists say much is still to be learned about these illusive and endangered creatures - the world's slowest mammals - as even basic information such as their natural diet and habitat preference remains a mystery. How sloths breathe upside down 2014-04-26T11:24:39Z The mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared more than a month ago, has sparked the most expensive search and rescue operation in aviation history, but concrete information has proven frustratingly illusive. Malaysia plane hunt resumes amidst optimism over 'pings' 2014-04-10T02:22:58Z He was elected, like so many of his predecessors, on a promise of peace and security for Israelis, but he struggled to achieve that illusive goal. Obituary: Ariel Sharon 2014-01-11T12:31:05Z Of course, justice will remain illusive in China because of the Communist Party's strict control of the courts. Farewell to Shanghai's labour camps 2014-01-04T02:34:39Z "Those seeking division ... are seeking only an illusive mirage and self interest and not public or national interests," Hadi said on Friday in a speech carried by state news agency Saba. Yemen president rules out southern split, separatists call rallies 2013-11-29T22:00:19Z She said details of the execution protocol had been "illusive at best". US killer granted stay of execution 2013-11-20T00:39:41Z The illusive quality of privacy is a recurring theme of literature going back to the Hebrew Bible. Welcome to the Surveillance Society 2013-08-01T19:20:28Z Almost two years after the FSA was created, that remains illusive. Syria's unwinnable war 2013-05-09T07:03:52Z The illusive search for “sustainable competitive advantage” as the essence of strategy is being abandoned. The Best New Books On The Creative Economy 2013-05-07T14:31:08Z The illusive search for sustainable competitive advantage is abandoned. Leadership In The Three-Speed Economy 2013-05-01T15:58:11Z But linseed flowers are illusive, they bloom for a few hours each day and for a few weeks in June. Farmer grows giant Olympic rings 2012-06-21T04:12:44Z It is an early attempt at that dramatic narration, with an illusive 'atmosphere' supplied by the orchestra, which has been so extensively practised since its composition. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Another trout snapped illusively, and we had him—larger by a quarter of a pound than the first. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z It is our duty to know and analyze freedom, however illusive. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Man is but the dream of a shadow, said Pindar, speaking for the race of genius, and Byron is conscious of the same insight into the illusive spectacle. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z Nor has any obscure, mysterious, or illusive point in history been cleared up by the spirits. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z With “the unknowable” conceded, all scientific teaching would be illusive. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z The young couple hoped that, this step being once irrevocably taken, forgiveness would follow, but this hope proved illusive. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z It seemed like a hall of colonnades of illimitable extent—the multiplication of the mirrors into each other was so endless and illusive. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Let them not be deceived by illusive phrases. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z One may have learned to enjoy the sublime, the beautiful, the useful, the orderly, but he has missed something if he has not also learned to enjoy the incongruous, the illusive, and the unexpected. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z But in an illusive way it seemed to have a semblance of truth—a certain persuasiveness. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Oh, come back with me to our dear, dear earth, where we shall know each other once more under illusive forms—where there exists the superstition of friendship! Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z Any hopes founded on aught else, are illusive. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z Then he knew it was an illusion of his eyes, straining suddenly in that illusive light. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z With the treasures of the Great Mogul in his hold, he did not follow the illusive course of Captain Kidd, "as he sailed, as he sailed." The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Maya, m�′ya, n. an illusive appearance, esp. of a celestial maiden personifying the active will of the creator of the universe. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z We prate of Life's illusive dyes, Yet still fond Hope enchants us; We all believe we near the prize, Till some fresh dupe supplants us! A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z It was dim, illusive; it was like a musical poem in an unknown tongue, and yet, unlike French scents and hot-house flowers, it subtly suggested open spaces and mountain-peaks. The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z He sees that the distinction between himself and others, which to the bad man is so great a gulf, only belongs to a fleeting and illusive phenomenon. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z A beautiful, however illusive world," he by-and-by sadly resumed; "this Death—now so close at my heels—wrenches us from. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z The simple and divine truth was overlaid with various and sensual fictions, buried under illusive symbols, and at last perverted into a horrible phantom. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z What does the wanton fancy mean By such a strange, illusive scene? The Odes of Anacreon 2011-12-08T03:00:29.763Z And always there seemed to be one vision more illusive than the rest which she particularly longed to recapture. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z The operation, therefore, of competition in keeping down the prices of commodities, including those on which wages are expended, is not illusive but real, and, we may add, is a growing, not a declining, fact. Socialism 2011-11-27T03:00:13.337Z Full as night is of phantoms, shades, sounds and silence, it is no illusive mirage, no mere empty simulacrum. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z Ravan abducted only an illusive image of Sita, while the true Sita had disappeared. Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita 2011-11-16T03:00:26.507Z So we see that "our ideas of Motion" are not "illusive," but deficient. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Each time, she hoped to get further,—though remoter shapes were illusive, and, if approached too closely, vanished,—for, once embarked on her river of memories, the descent was relentlessly swift. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z She is spreading abroad the illusive word "peace." Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 2 The Second Twelve Months of War 2011-10-27T02:00:27.020Z After a fleeting, illusive hope, prudence condemned me to acquiesce in the humble station of a mute.7 ... Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z Where in all the three worlds can we find the constant man who cannot be shaken by your illusive play? Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita 2011-11-16T03:00:26.507Z What is so fragile, illusive, uncertain as a rainbow? In a Mysterious Way 2011-09-25T02:00:17.377Z Though she was older than the three girls by the fire, she was young with an illusive and indestructible grace of the soul. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z Now a trail is a very subtle and illusive thing, once it’s lost, and one’s imagination plays many strange tricks in a desert of sage brush. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z And then arrives a lull in the hot race Wherein he doth for ever chase That flying and illusive shadow Rest. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Countless illusive universes float in that ocean, just as a pot of oil-seeds may float in the ditch round a city. Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita 2011-11-16T03:00:26.507Z The fir trees were converted into huge Christmas trees, and the beeches' branches were etched against a sky suffused with the illusive lilac reflections of the snow. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z In a former chapter we dealt with a child's mind as a harbourer of fancies, as subject to the illusive spell of its bright imagery. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z Do you know what all this illusive quality, this sphinx-like mystery, this profundity in your wife's temperament all really comes to? Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z The number of illusive renderings of prints taken from the same finger, is greatly increased by such trifles as the relative breadths of their respective lineations and the differences in their depths of tint. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z That some of the eleven should have had one illusive fancy and some another would not have been improbable, but that all should have had the same would have been inordinately so. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z One will not find elsewhere an equal craftsmanship in bringing into words and vision the intangible, the far, fine, illusive fancy, the ghosts of vanished hearts and hopes. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z Through sleep only they will open again before you, steeped in the illusive vagueness of the first long-past day, peopled only by friends outstretching to you. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z As simple as this trick seems in explanation, it is nevertheless wonderfully illusive, and can be recommended to the amateur as worthy of his repertoire, especially for the parlor, or club room. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z The southern coast of Greenland was explored and Davis Strait was crossed, but the illusive opening was not found. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z To say that humour is the most subtle and illusive of qualities, is to utter a truism. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z So long as she lived, Ann would do such things, offer sympathy by the suggestion of a caress, just as she would always respond to the masculine call by an illusive half-promise. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z Even Constantinople, which so lately had filled our imaginations, was now thought of but as a brilliant mirage which had met our view by chance, and soon vanished with all its illusive splendours. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Peculiarities of Memory.—Memory is an illusive and elusive function at best. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Although I love her still,—although the memory of her burning ardour, her splendid indifference and her wealth of illusive charm is my abiding and most valued possession, we shall meet no more. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z Idoine's illusive resemblance to Liana had suddenly flashed across his thoughts. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Storytelling is part of the creative struggle to generate a new future, as opposed to conventional management approaches that search for virtual certainties anchored in the illusive security of yesterday. Why Leadership Storytelling Is Important 2011-06-09T02:18:33Z I had not been home a quarter of an hour till I felt that something had gone wrong; that the usual sweet and serene home atmosphere was impregnated with an illusive element of discord. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z The ideal world seemed hardly more illusive than the material. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The baton is your will: erect, firm, unshakeable; the flowers are the wanderings of your fancy around it: the feminine element encircling the masculine with her illusive dance. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z The forest, a tangle of shrubs and strange creepers, was the scene of the idyl; she, a sprite of the greenwood, danced illusively through the maze. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z But the surface of the planet yields little detail, and that little is illusive and ill-defined. Are the Planets Inhabited? 2011-04-24T02:00:07.733Z Its coarse methods are not adapted to measure the illusive psyche. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Effective effrontery is the result of courageous ignorance, for millions are more easily influenced by illusive promises than by the lessons of experience. Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z He caught at every illusive vagary that might promise to retrieve his error. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z The mystery of the disease was most illusive. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z Promises spoken to the air, written in dust—yet a word, a look, like a blessing or a hope—ever so illusive, before the wing is spread, and the long and untried journey begins! The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z He wore his most seraphic grin, and his ears were spread to catch the most illusive chords of melody. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z Doubtless he has seen good to take advantage of your fine and ardent patriotism, luring you on with illusive promises of revenge. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z This sort of illusive contrivance would sometimes give way, and we were nearly precipitated into the midst. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z It is because the effects are illusive that I now refrain from experimenting with myself unless there is someone in the room with me. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z Although Professor Wehlau had concealed the truth from the young Countess and had allowed her to cherish illusive hopes, the general and the rest of the family were aware of the calamity that awaited her. Saint Michael A Romance 2011-01-31T03:00:12.470Z It was the first day of the Christmas holidays, and a fine hunting morning, with clouds that showed no immediate threat of rain, and a soft air that contained an illusive promise of spring. Abington Abbey A Novel 2011-01-30T03:00:14.557Z The sky is deep blue above our heads, and infinite horizons unfold around us their great spectacular display of illusive images. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z Yes, a mythical creature as illusive—as you are. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z Something of the Mongol's poise and dignity had reasserted itself, and a faint, illusive smile—an almost tolerant smile—touched his woman's-mouth. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Classic mistakes include lack of adequate planning, an overly aggressive timetable, failure to look at possible integration problems, and illusive synergies. 5 Tips for Executing a Successful Acquisition 2010-12-22T09:13:00Z Like Empire, the game is about one character's search for answers and for an identity that remains illusive. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II ? hands-on and story details 2010-10-06T18:44:00Z Surely, it was enough to discourage him; and yet to the end of his life he eagerly followed this illusive hope. The Home Life of Poe But of course this was only a freak, illusive reverie played his senses, which lamplight and work soon dispelled. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers The illusive fragrance of sandalwood from her hair was not calculated to make him feel any more at ease. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z To this entirely illusive and delusive scheme, the remnant of the Autonomist party gave adherence with a devotion worthy of a better cause. The History of Cuba, vol. 4 And we look about for an illusive assurance in some "law of thought," or some question-begging "universal premise" of Nature's "uniformity." Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The bonds that drew him to his entertainers, and the gulf that separated him from them, were so tangible and yet so illusive. The Gambler A Novel If not wholly unconscious at the time, the incident must have seemed to her as nothing but an illusive dream. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance The combination haunted him, was linked with an illusive fragment in his memory. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z In the faint illusive light of the spent moon, the treacherous cliff brow was well-nigh indistinguishable even to Renshaw’s tried vision. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt This world has nothing to offer, its enjoyments are only an illusive show, which tempt you hither and thither, therefore turn away from them. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Painting, therefore, seemed to him, as it did to Plato, less virile and less pure than sculpture, because of its seductive quality, its illusive magic which imitates the appearance of things and merely creates illusions. Michelangelo Conan, towering above the field, strode through the welter smiting right and left, but Valeria moved like an illusive phantom, constantly shifting, and thrusting and slashing as she shifted. Red Nails The missive was written in English, in feminine handwriting, and carried a faint, illusive odor—that of sandalwood. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z There was an illusive glitter of rings—just such rings as June had worn: one emerald, one diamond. The Brightener I confess that before the battle of Tagin� the whole horizon threatened thunderstorms; but, as I am still alive, those appearances must have been illusive. A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 Sink, scenes illusive, deep in dark abyss of doom! The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers And not again, either in late twilight, or early dawn, did Dusty Star catch the shadows at their old illusive game. Dusty Star A picture of the Mongol created itself in illusive imagery before him. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z It may be conjectured that this hope was illusive, for Bragg had exceedingly accurate sources of information. Stone's River The Turning-Point of the Civil War No other flower is so ethereal and illusively lovely. The Portal of Dreams Charles dropped behind, to light a cigar, and when he came up to them again he had the illusive sense of a rapid speech stopped at his approach. The Bright Shawl We can but conclude that this unanimous judgment could only have been the result of that mysterious union, so illusive, so indefinable, of spiritual with physical beauty. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens Chavigny, an illusive personality, ever at his heels, like his own shadow! Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Go fearlessly into her Wonderland and let her teach you "how to meet the illusive, the incongruous, and the unexpected." Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation The room was reflected on the window-pane from the solid darkness behind it—the candles, the green table, the players—a fantastic, illusive scene, shimmering on the ground of night as on some sinister reality. The Return of the Prodigal But for five days the trails were illusive, finally vanishing in a spread of faint footprints radiating from a centre telling us that the Indians had broken up and scattered over separate ways. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas "Just so those fires, the conquerors of darkness, deceive us into thinking that they are near, while they only cast their distant, illusive rays into the night...." Contemporary Russian Novelists The conscious life of all men is apparitional and illusive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" The illusive drinks, with their dangerous admixture of belladonna, did they already appear at that board? La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages This policy can lead only to defeat or to an empty and illusive victory, worse than defeat. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. There was also another kind of illusive advertisement which I answered in prodigal numbers in the greenness of these early days. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself There was something so illusive in the scene as to make it very impressive. Across Asia on a Bicycle Microscopic distinctions also tend to be illusive, variable in such fashion that often at the critical point the most exact description fails. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species Was he to return to the poor, scantily supplied home, and continue a drag on its resources, lingering out his days in illusive hopes? Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement At that time, at eighteen, drawing near the confines of illusive, void dreams, Elf-land lies behind us, the shores of Reality rise in front. Shirley He was thinking only of the illusive, desirable, maddening quality of the girl that walked beside him, filled with inexplicable forebodings for a friend, whom he knew to be invulnerable to misfortune. Outside Inn The fear that lurked illusively in the daughter was in the parent magnified to an appalling panic, an instinctive, acute agony that had crushed everything but a thin, tormented spark of life. Wild Oranges There was Miss Ocky, arrayed in the somber robes of a monk, a stained dagger held loosely in her fingers, an illusive, faintly mocking smile on her lips. The Monk of Hambleton In the MS. this line reads, "To chase the hoop's illusive speed," which seems to us better than the revised form in the text. Select Poems of Thomas Gray At midnight, after two hours' restless sleep, I awoke to find her standing before the bureau, in a gown of silver gauze, which gave her an illusive appearance of being clothed in moonlight. The Romance of a Plain Man Faithless dawn! with illusive feet It comes too late to ease his fate. Many Gods Ignorance also begets the illusive and illogical idea that there is only one existence for man, and the other illusion that this one life is followed by states of unchangeable pleasure or torment. The Buddhist Catechism Perhaps it is because I still feel weak, that at times illusive, intangible thoughts come into my mind. East of the Shadows It hid itself behind an illusive veil of law and a bulwark of officials. The Shepherd of the North Sight of its illusive form could always sweep away his doubts; straighten his shoulders. The Big Tomorrow I hope to be pardoned for declining to accept these illusive distinctions as the boundaries which separate justice from the other components of morality. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications His last method of success had turned out illusive, yet he had not reproached, nor domineered, nor dictated, nor appealed. The Man Who Wins No sun, no warmth, excepting when I saw you in my dreams—distant, illusive. East of the Shadows Even the apparent passiveness of the geologic products is illusive, for they are in reality expressions of continued internal activities of an intense, though occult, order. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College Their world—the world which, in an illusive and unreal sort of way, had been a part of his dreams all his life. The Valley of Silent Men A Story of the Three River Country Jeffrey saw the tremendous recognition she assuredly had had, grown through the illusive fructifying of memory into something overwhelming, and he was glad starved vanity might once more be fed. The Prisoner The beauty of the dolphin resembled the mystery of the Gulf Stream—too illusive for the eye of man. Tales of Fishes They worked all around it, but the idea seemed illusive and they never grasped it. How the Piano Came to Be I do wish I could explain clearly; but to explain a thing so delicate, so illusive, would be like taking a soap-bubble in your hand to demonstrate that it was round. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America But the rattling of the dice had attracted attention in the bar, and, lured by that illusive music, four men approached the room where the gamblers sat. The Tale of Timber Town They spent a delicious afternoon lying under the tall straight pines, with the sweet-smelling needles for a bed, watching the delicate and illusive effects of light filtering among the shimmering leaves of birches. The Madcap of the School To me they appeared game, swift, and illusive. Tales of Fishes She had slipped in and out of the room as he had talked with the patriarch, after supper, flitting like some illusive shadow of shyness. The Roof Tree Ah! the wiles of woman—subtle and illusive as a breath or a shadow—the one thing her own sex fears most! When Dreams Come True The new doctrine, which is illusive, may be thus defined: Marriage is a mere compact, and means diversity. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Among the many quack remedies for poverty, the most venerable and the most illusive is thrift or saving. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals When the boat is moving there is a better chance of a tight line while striking, and that is imperative if an angler expects to hook the majority of these illusive sailfish. Tales of Fishes And, the road and the tinker would become as a dream, fading with the summer into a sweet, illusive memory—and a photograph. Seven Miles to Arden You seek happiness in the evanescent wine and laughter of the illusive, superficial life. When Dreams Come True Krishna gave to Arjuna, at the latter's request, a vision of his true Self separate from, and infinitely higher than, the humble and illusive garb of his incarnation. India, Its Life and Thought The illusive idea that we are searching for is nothing hidden or mystic but right before our very eyes. Pictorial Photography in America 1922 The triumph, however, was only ephemeral and illusive. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I He possesses, as Miss Cassandra says, that most illusive and indescribable quality which we call distinction for lack of a better word. In Château Land When these shall have been overcome, I shall possess my soul in tranquillity, vexing myself in nowise if, in the world's illusive good, all men have the advantage over me. Apologia Diffidentis In one school the Divine Being is nothing and materialism has full sway; while in the other Br�hm is everything, and all that appears to men—the phenomenal—is false and illusive. India, Its Life and Thought Yet ever before them there, from the sunrise to its setting, the spectral illusive shapes of the mirage floated like restless spirit betwixt heaven and earth on the quivering heat-haze. The Red True Story Book In my opinion, his success is all illusive and hollow. Hannibal Makers of History Here you will find life stripped of care and conventionality; idealized, seductive, and illusive, the days swinging from charm to charm, like bubbles in the sunlight. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Finally he found her; or, rather, she slipped illusively into his contracted field of vision. Mountain Blood A Novel From somewhere in that illusive shadow land came the faint beat of a horse’s hoofs, growing steadily louder. Shoe-Bar Stratton The thing was too vague and illusive to become a purpose at all. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk And love is like the moonlight With soft illusive rays. Three Women What must be said of the philosophy begotten by such an illusive being? India's Problem, Krishna or Christ But the man who has won his way in that illusive sphere we call society sends to swift oblivion all his processes. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Are we to suppose that the depths of malignity in an Iago, or the "dark backward and abysm" of remorse in a Macbeth, are things purely relative and illusive? Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Though I am unborn, and my nature is eternal, and I am the Lord also of all creatures, yet taking control of my nature-form, I am born by my illusive power. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology And her face, that had seemed so jolly and friendly, floated past the window as pale and illusive as a wisp of fog. Free Air Oratory is as stealthy and as illusive as a weazel at night. The Jucklins A Novel At this time public affairs were very much hampered by a feeling of indifference as well as an illusive notion that peace would soon follow. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The mention of the situation, in which in spite of Shakespeare and the rest poor modern sceptics still find themselves, is an indication of how hopelessly illusive all talk of "progress" is. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations It is attributed to contrast; but if thus illusive, it is at least an illusion not to be looked out of countenance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Her dress was a delicate creation of white lace and chiffon, with illusive shimmerings of silver in its folds that came and went with every one of her graceful movements. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls If it be illusive you have made it so. The Jucklins A Novel Trust not Hope’s illusive ray, Trust not Joy’s deceitful smiles; Oft they reckless youth betray With their bland, seductive wiles. Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life The sublimity of Pascal's vision depends upon its being illusive. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Exact truth is as illusive to discovery by that as other pernicious methods. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan He balanced carefully, stretched out one arm to encircle an imaginary waist and started heavily to tread the illusive measure. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World Plato attributes actual being only to the Ideas, and concedes only an illusive, dream-like existence to things in space and time, the real world for the individual. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics When wearied arms were faint to strike, And ruin threatened all alike, Vishṇu, with art's illusive aid, The Amrit from their sight conveyed. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse As literature develops from the simple nursery rhyme and the brief, abrupt fable to the fairy tale with its illusive beauty, so the pictures should advance in a parallel and a closely related manner. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The sense of the misery of France was present to many minds in the opening of the century, and with the death of Louis XIV. came illusive hopes of amelioration. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. No,—there was only one pursuit left open to him, the pursuit of pleasure, and he had not sufficiently recovered from his late shock to start off in chase of that illusive phantom. Fairy Fingers A Novel Therefore, if we are satisfied with life as it is, we may confidently regard it as endless and banish the fear of death as illusive. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics It would be difficult to find a man who better conformed to the exacting yet illusive requirements of that term. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization Man acquires a kind of wisdom by means of which his spirit sees through the illusive character of sense-life. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity We deal not so much with weights and measures as with illusive inaccuracies. The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle He indeed promised to provide an equal amount of emigration, but they knew that these projects were illusive. The History of Tasmania, Volume I He had thought her an exquisite trifle, almost too illusive to be taken seriously. Jewel Weed Thick, within and around us, lie the rich veins of illusive suggestion from which they spring. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 From hidden recesses, strains of music filled the room with tinkling passages of sensuous, but illusive, harmony; a dream of ardor, masked in the daintiness of a minuet. Under the Rose Ropes had to light the lamps before we saw more of Manzanares than an illusive church spire which kept appearing and disappearing like a will-o'-the-wisp. The Car of Destiny Through sleep only they will open again before you,—steeped in the illusive vagueness of the first long-past day,—peopled only by friends outreaching to you. Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories What a woman of moods! 2d Courtier She is illusive. Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes To turn elsewhere.—We may now look into a broader seam of illusive power—one which lies entirely within ourselves, and needs no objective influence to bring its ghost-producing fertility into play. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Into the past, having gone so far, he stepped now boldly, as though to grasp again those illusive colors and seize anew the intangible substance. Under the Rose She knows it is but a deception of her senses—an illusive vision—such as occur to clairvoyantes, at times deceiving themselves. The Death Shot A Story Retold It synthesised and formulated fantastic and illusive experiences. The Ffolliots of Redmarley Some of these are open and palpable; others are secret, illusive, little suspected, and liable to come unlooked for and without warning. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries But I see in it the greater reason why men like yourself should take up the investigation of these illusive and disturbing problems. The Shadow World Her face wore a proud, self-reliant expression; her eyes that look which had made her seem so illusive from the inception of their acquaintance. Under the Rose Then indeed Turnus, when he believed Aeneas turned and fled from him, and his spirit madly drank in the illusive hope: 'Whither fliest thou, Aeneas? forsake not thy plighted bridal chamber. The Aeneid of Virgil The tendency was indefinable, illusive, but it was there, and simple-minded Mary only reflected gratefully that Grantly was "growing up awfully nice." The Ffolliots of Redmarley It may also wrap dangerously irrelevant habits and institutions in a saving—and illusive—halo. Human Traits and their Social Significance Long and intently he stared at the spot—yes, there it was again,—a gossamer wraith, so illusive as to be scarcely distinguishable from the blue haze of early dawn. Prairie Flowers Before her the shadows danced illusively; the film of brightness changed and shifted; then all glimmering and partial shade were swallowed up in a black chasm. Under the Rose Thus had Arethusa's life-long dream of becoming a missionary's wife proved neither illusive nor vain; and she had dropped the Toothaker. Hubert's Wife A Story for You I took good care not to disturb the illusive hopes which my aunt had already conceived. French and Oriental Love in a Harem There have been, on the other hand, those who, having some of the external eccentricities of genius, have given an illusive impression of greatness. Human Traits and their Social Significance It must carry with it the impression, illusive or otherwise, that it is the outward form or shape of a living personal soul. The Complex Vision In the basin of the fountain tiny fish played and darted, and as his eyes turned from her to them they appeared as swift and illusive as his own surging fancies. Under the Rose Beneath her smiles Phil had sensed of late a vague unrest, disappointment—he hardly knew what to call it, so illusive it was. Every Man for Himself Deceived by his illusive standard, he has composed a poem which is perpetually fancy, and never passion. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Subsequent events showed how illusive was the hope of averting hostilities in any of the border States, and how fortunate it was that active measures were adopted at once. Forty-Six Years in the Army In the second instance it is a tragic temptation to rest by the way in a unity which is an illusive unity and in a heaven from which "the sun of the morning" is excluded. The Complex Vision And he has sought this wandering, illusive, beckoning butterfly, the soul of dreams, over more and more entangled ground; and it has led him into the depths of many forests, far from the sunlight. Figures of Several Centuries Still she knew that he was well, and heard from him every week, though Bert only detailed his experiences in general terms, not caring to raise expectations which perhaps might prove illusive. Five Hundred Dollars or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret The first three hours of the hunt passed somewhat slowly as the hounds sought in vain for a scent, or “found,” only to be rewarded by a short, illusive chase. Etheldreda the Ready A School Story He is as illusive as a phrase of Mallarmé and it will be remembered that he is of the period more or less of the rose and the lily and the lost idea in poetry. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets What is specially distinctive is her gift of selection, by which she brings out the most illusive psychological contrasts. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story We chase the illusive glitter of fashion as though it was a crown of glory, and could impart dignity and peace to its wearer. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. The traveler swept a long look around the country, illusive, it seemed, according to its past treatment of men, in its restful beauty and secure feeling of peace. Trail's End It cleft the vapors,—they were falling away on either side,—and they reflected it with an illusive, pearly shimmer. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories His being able to see it so was a sort of consolation for having, by the illusive quality of his dreams, missed them both on his own account. The Lovely Lady Accustomed to seeing him gentle, shrinking, illusively non-resisting, I scarcely knew this white flame of a man, burning over the tea-bowl! The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story His speeches were as elusive and illusive as they were smooth and graceful. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Everything that counted, that is, in the valuation of the proscribed, and the victims who came like ephemera on the night wind to scorch and shrivel and be drained in their bright, illusive fires. Trail's End But Andrea endeavoured to kindle an illusive hope in her breast, to sow in her heart the seeds of a dream that could only lead to future suffering. The Child of Pleasure Other sitars came in illusively, till they snared the current of human blood in a golden mesh and measured its flow to the time of mounting emotion. Son of Power If he saw them at all, it was through the softening and illusive medium of generalised phrases. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson The Jansenists and the Jesuits, the playwrights, the novelists, Hobbes and Spinoza, all pursued, along widely different paths, those illusive secrets of the human heart which had escaped the notice of earlier generations. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France A cold white fire, spreading behind the purple-edged ranges, enriched their somber panoply with illusive enchantments, ever changing as the dim effulgence drifted from peak to peak. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail She paused as if contemplating some illusive thought. Where the Sun Swings North THE atmosphere of mystery that surrounds the Kendrick Place in Putnam County is illusive, of course; but the illusion is perfect. Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White A pretended experience is indeed the screen behind which every illusive doctrine regularly retires. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity It is not impossible for us to conjecture the general character of this brilliant and illusive talk. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France The simple and Divine Truth was overlaid with various and sensual fictions, buried under illusive symbols, and at last perverted into horrible phantoms. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry She was possessed by a desire to express in music the mystery of the wilderness afterglow, the wild, illusive feeling that had touched her. Where the Sun Swings North The taunting “boo-hoos” and screams of delight from the bleachers were as demoralizing as the illusively daring runners. The Young Pitcher The adjournment of the Legislature was at hand; another year, and perhaps years unforeseen in number, were to be occupied in the same slow, illusive quest. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times At planting, at plowing and at gathering, no detail was too small or too illusive to escape his eye. An Arkansas Planter The guaranty proved to be illusive, though probably not intended to be so. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. The damp air had in it the freshness of new-cut hemlock boughs, a wild, vigorous fragrance that stirs the imagination with strange, illusive promises of the wilderness. Where the Sun Swings North The effect is most illusive, nor should I have guessed the truth had I not seen the reflection of my own figure in the glass. Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath The face of a man chasing an illusive but not uncapturable dream. Hunter Patrol How illusive it is!�dancing, darting, flickering, flashing�appearing, disappearing�unsubstantial yet active and almost miraculously potent. Nature Mysticism Besides, the Ridge is not like the roof of a house, but a most illusive series of irregular knolls with small plateaus or valleys between, a sort of miniature broken tableland. My Second Year of the War Jean continued slowly, as if trying to put into words some illusive feeling. Where the Sun Swings North What the mind really strives for is to start a train of ideas which shall suggest the illusive ideas involved in the desired answer. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education How shall we interpret such illusive predications except by cultivating our literary perceptions, by reading the most significant authors until we are at home with them? Logic Deductive and Inductive I confess the sermon was wholly unsatisfactory to me, un-catholic in its premises, and many of his arguments and facts chimerical and illusive. Life of Father Hecker The social differences between men he found were equally arbitrary and illusive; caste bred hatred and selfishness; riches strife, envy and malice. The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons Besides all this, they are exceedingly valuable as providing us with that general sense of religion, vague and illusive, which is deeper than all dogma. Among Famous Books "If you could only trust God, believe in Him as Mr. Bowen does, you would find every other delight in life illusive, compared with the joy He would give you." Medoline Selwyn's Work In the magnificence of the phantom rays the ship appeared pure like a vision of ideal beauty, illusive like a tender dream of serene peace. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle Or was this but an illusive relief, a mere momentary lull in the tempest of humiliation that was muttering and darkening around her? Infelice Then, they had seemed to him the only realities, these tangible physical things, and all else illusion: now it was the physical things that were illusive, and something else that was real. None Other Gods For me I am weary of battle-fields, and feel no desire to grasp after illusive flowers and fading grass. Atmâ A Romance At last, also lest memory prove illusive, she wrote the sentence down: "Wield leniently the dangerous gift of your witchcraft—the freakish beauty of your perfect unmatched eyes." Destiny Here it may be stated that the term, "quicksand," is so illusive that a true definition of it is badly needed. Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174, Volume LXX, December 1910 Both are translations of the Sanskrit Nirmâna and the root idea is not incarnation but transformation in an illusive form. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Hast thou come back, great bard, to charm and bless My heart with many a grand, illusive vision, And show those gorgeous fields of happiness, With vistas and with rivers all Elysian? Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems His promises are true, though illusive; far truer than we at first take them to be. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series If disease is real it is not illusive, and it certainly would contradict the Science of Mind-healing to attempt to destroy the realities of Mind in order to heal the sick. No and Yes In her face that day they readily saw some faint, illusive sign of beauty heretofore unnoticed, or perhaps concealed. Bruvver Jim's Baby That which is not so is illusive and fading. Unity of Good In one of these temporary and illusive pacifications, Alfred attempted to bind the Danes by Christian oaths. King Alfred of England Makers of History Not yet; for Berlioz is the most illusive of men, and no one has helped more than he to mislead people in their estimate of him. Musicians of To-Day Was the merit of the giver illusive also,—illusive like the grace of the supple fingers that gave? Some Chinese Ghosts Lapierre was also of the North—the North as it is tonight; soft air, balmy with the incense of growing things; illusive dark, half concealing, half revealing, blurring distant outlines. The Gun-Brand The evil accompanying physical personality is illusive and mortal; but the good attendant upon spiritual individuality is immortal. Unity of Good There followed after this a series of contests and truces, during which treacherous wars alternated with still more treacherous and illusive periods of peace, neither party, on the whole, gaining any decided victory. King Alfred of England Makers of History It was exceedingly well done,—so graceful was the attitude, so boldly stood out the figure, so admirable was the coloring, so illusive the air of life. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance Only in illusive fancy Must I hear their tones again? Debris Selections from Poems It was subtle, illusive, a vague, indefinite trouble in the air. A Man's Woman Starting from this interpretation, we can begin to order the baffling and teasing aspects, the illusive nature of the world. Preaching and Paganism If not an affecting sight, it was one at least strongly indicative of the intractable and indurated attachment which put itself forth with such vague and illusive energy on behalf of his son. Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Even psychology, resting as it does largely upon the observation of the self by the self, must be illusive. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant That pleasing picture of objects, represented in miniature on the retina of the eye, seems to have given rise to this illusive oratory! Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Or was he only the father of a witch, of an illusive ignis fatuus, of some mocking Ariel darting into a dozen shapes to make fools of the poor simple souls of earth? Macleod of Dare They spun themselves about into all kinds of shapes, wavering and illusive, that defied the somewhat atrophied imagination of the Meanest Trustee. The Primrose Ring Second-rate conceptions excitedly and approximately put into words derive from it an illusive attraction which may make them for a time, and with all but the coolest judges, pass as first-rate. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century I know not how long they would have kept me prisoner with their illusive music. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Upon him "the illusive eyes of hope" were closed. Success A Novel She had a beautiful face and a comely figure, but she belonged not to the illusive, distracting type. The Spinners The thoroughfare along here is level and broad and smooth, and being skirted on one side by the park, it offers to speeding vehicles the illusive freedom of a country road. A Cathedral Singer He looked back; it was gone; his feet hurried forward into the unguessed future; anxiety joined him; the scent that was Ludowika accompanied him, an illusive figure. The Three Black Pennys A Novel Cholera and Plague originate on the coast of Bengal, India, where conditions are bad enough of themselves without the apology of the illusive bacillus as a causative agent. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration There was nothing illusive, nothing merely imaginary, in these fairy worlds for the Irish hero or the Irish people. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland The truth seems to be that the Vedanta regards the individuation of the soul as from Maya and illusive, but the substance of the soul is from Brahma, and destined to be absorbed into him. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology He awaited awhile longer, but the hope was an illusive one, and he finally started on his return to camp. The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne Sophie, apparently midway in appearance between Kingsfrere and Mariana, was gracefully proportioned, and gave an impression of illusive beauty by means of a mystery of veils, such as were caught up on her hat now. The Three Black Pennys A Novel The illusive germ has come to be regarded by the layman with reserve—nay more—with suspicion. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Ah, the secret ballot is but another of the illusive baits which the rich wisely throw out to the poor to keep them in submission. The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin Browning's world, else so massive and so indubitable, becomes unsubstantial and phantasmal, an illusive pageant in which Truth is present only under a mask, being "forced to manifest itself through falsehood." Robert Browning The painting of this picture was as illusive as Evelyn herself, the treatment of the reddish hair and the grey background. Sister Teresa These illusive images were owing, not to any extraordinary refraction of the rays of light, but produced by an eager longing for the distant and the unattained. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Whether it was the illusive likeness to the son, showing first in the eyes, then in the mouth, which was one of extraordinary sweetness, it was hard to tell. The Twenty-Fourth of June "But—Mr. Palmer—" Mona began, tremulously, hardly able to credit her ears, hardly able to believe that this great and almost overwhelming joy was a reality, and not some illusive dream. Mona A. Certainty as to the Material Universe being false and illusive, and Brahman being the only reality. Five Years of Theosophy It sputtered, throwing an illusive gleam on the wet rock a yard or two in front, and then went out. Carmen's Messenger The philosophy of the Greeks, the physical views of the Middle Ages, and even those of a more recent period, have been eminently imbued with the charm springing from similar illusive phantoms of the imagination. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 But how to produce this particular illusive shade of deep, purplish-pink became a forgotten art, when the seductive person of the king's mistress was no more. The Art of Interior Decoration Dandy Joe had disappeared; the hope of attaining his end through him, of being led to the retreat of one he had so long desired to find, had proved illusive. Half A Chance It is good of you to give me this interview, for we are up against a curious problem and the situation, as it appears at present, may be illusive and quite unlike the real facts. The Red Redmaynes It seemed as if some gauzy illusive garment had been lifted from a fair body and that his eyes, made free of the white limbs, had discerned a corpse. Max To sharpen our sense of what is illusive in the illusion of the puppets, let us sit not too far from the stage. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory For life's sweet, sad, illusive dream Fruition, though in Heaven afar— "A silver lining" hath the cloud Through dark and stormiest night, And there are eyes to pierce the shroud And see the hidden light. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 Tantalizing, it lay like a shadow, illusive, unattainable as the "forgotten isles." Half A Chance In selecting such passages as I have in these letters I have necessarily followed my own taste, and taste—as I said when I first began writing to you—is illusive. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson This Image is altogether unsatisfactory, illusive, and even in some measure tragical to me! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. The moral law that must be apprehended, and whose authority must be recognized by man, either sinks out of being or becomes an illusive phantom, if man is doomed to ignorance or false knowledge. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher "He loves to call a football an 'illusive spheroid,'" chuckled another chap. Left Tackle Thayer In 1904 Carrière was made honorary president of the Autumn Salon and was the chief guest of these young painters, who really adored Paul Cézanne, and not the painter of an illusive psychology. Promenades of an Impressionist Now with thine own illusive art Perform, O Lord, the helper's part: Assume a dwarfish form, and thus From fear and danger rescue us.' Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala Then, as they drifted, a sound struggled to them against the wind—a faint cry, illusive and fleeting as a dream voice—and, still doubting, they heard it again. Pardners Hence the illusive and questionable personality of Stevenson. Emerson and Other Essays Before the eyes of the griffin, India steams up in poetical mists, illusive, fantastic, subjective, ideal, picturesque. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series The mellow dubious light that prevailed just served to tinge with illusive colors the softened features of the scenery. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete We are not two; we are one single being under two illusive natures! Raphael Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty Equal and illusive doubt hangs over the date of Eugene Field's birth. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 Do you imagine that I have been wasting the last three years of my life? do you believe that the ambition which was the subject of your illusive aim at college is dead? International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 If it has any creative function, that function is as illusive as its own nature, for the creation only lasts so long as the error lasts. A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 He roamed at large over the varied heights that tempt our curiosity, as the dawn of intelligence first lights them up one after another with bewitching visions and illusive magic. Burke But if these true principles rapidly made their way, certain illusive fears and many errors were with difficulty cleared away. The Moon-Voyage Yet all the evidence that there is goes to show that this romantic coloring is purely illusive. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I A still more fruitful source of the illusive feeling that language may be dispensed with in thought is the common failure to realize that language is not identical with its auditory symbolism. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech Still, however, it remains true that this sage, who made perfection his aim and reason his law, did Christianity an immense injustice and rested in an idea of State-attributes which was illusive. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold I trust it will here also appear that the means of acting, and the important advantages to be derived therefrom, are neither illusive nor impracticable. Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa Now the achievement seemed as illusive as the reward. The Soul of a Child The heat veils lifted in ripples, and any object not near at hand seemed illusive. Tales of lonely trails After a fleeting, illusive hope, prudence condemned me to acquiesce in the humble station of a mute. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters But far greater is the tragedy when the illusive charm of romance departs, and love and marriage are reduced to the commonplace. A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters The alleged chastity of Fijians is as illusive as their modesty. Primitive Love and Love-Stories The cases in which a force is apparently increased or diminished, as well as those in which it seems to disappear, are all found, on examination, to be illusive. Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile Mind I saw a fox, a badger, and another furry creature, too illusive to name. Tales of lonely trails Undergraduate popularity is often illusive and unstable, but undergraduate perception of incompetency is often very keen and discriminating. A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 After measuring the distances again with his eye, to be sure that he should raise no illusive hope, he pointed out to Marcia the way of escape. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 It is probable that much of what passes for hallucination proper belongs in reality to the hybrid case, being an illusive interpretation of some induced visual cloud or blur. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Indusium hood-shaped, fixed centrally behind the sorus and arching over it, soon withering, often illusive. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada Farther away some reeds were visible in the illusive light, and the meditative chatter of dozing ducks stirred the silence which wrapped the country like a cloak. Vain Fortune Their tears, their laughter, you command with ease, The lofty still they honor, the illusive love. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. "Now those lost pleasures trac'd by memory, seem "Like yon' illusive meteor's glancing light; "That o'er the darkness threw its instant gleam, "Then sunk, and vanish'd in the depth of night. Poems (1786), Volume I. Or was this only an illusive colour thrown on her skin by the red firelight? Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest To dream of an almanac, means variable fortunes and illusive pleasures. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition I bore a light in my hand, and brought it nearer my eyes, in order to dispel any illusive mists that might have hovered before them. Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale He thus on this side touches the Chaucers and their kindred, as well as the Spensers and Dantes and their often illusive confrères. Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial When alone she was as illusive as a shadow, as quick as a flash, as mysterious as a Yaqui. Desert Gold The man was a jack-o'-lantern, a will-o'-the-wisp, a weird, long-legged, long-armed, red-haired illusive phantom. The Redheaded Outfield If the light is weird or unnaturally bright, it augurs that you are entertaining illusive hopes. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition It had been like the stage gauze which gives an illusive air of reality to the painted scene behind it, yet proves it, after all, to be no more than a painted scene. The Reef The fringe of the herd was some two hundred yards distant, but its farther side, in that illusive shimmer of hot surface air, seemed miles away. The Octopus : A story of California For an instant Gale seemed to have a vision; but it did not last, and he failed to hold some beautiful illusive thing. Desert Gold And Kelly, rushing down to the chase, fell all over himself and his teammates trying to grasp the illusive ball, and all the time Tay Tay was running. The Redheaded Outfield To young women, a vision of weird and fairy affluence is ominous of illusive and evanescent pleasure. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition Miss Ophelia and the physician alone felt no encouragement from this illusive truce. Uncle Tom's Cabin Some nights it failed him entirely; upon others it was faint, illusive. The Octopus : A story of California He shouted Christine's name, brandished his pistol, knocked his forehead against the glass in his endeavors to run down the glades of the illusive forest. The Phantom of the Opera Extatic joy pervades my soul; I reach my arms to catch your dear embraces; the motion chases the illusive dream; I wake to real misery. Charlotte Temple To dream of seeing beautiful paintings, denotes that friends will assume false positions towards you, and you will find that pleasure is illusive. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition It is true that three years have passed away, and we have not yet produced colored images; yet I am not inclined to consider the hope as entirely illusive. History and Practice of the Art of Photography It had come back, but now there was a change—mysterious, illusive. The Octopus : A story of California So that was arranged; and again in the illusive sense of deliverance, the poor vicar's hopes brightened and expanded. Wylder's Hand It seemed so long ago already—he had a pang of illusive loneliness. The Beautiful and Damned Amaryllis was disturbed, she longed to ask him what it was which she felt, and why there seemed some illusive remembrance always haunting her. The Price of Things On the word of a gentleman, I see nothing illusive in the wretchedly bedaubed sheet of canvas that forms your background, or in these pasteboard slips that hitch and jerk along the front. Main Street (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") It was the feeling of distrustful regret with which we should draw back the hand after extending it, in an illusive twilight, to grasp the hand of a shadow upon the wall. The Christmas Banquet (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") We seemed to be fascinated hither and thither by an ignis fatuus, enticed into quagmires and quicksands by an altogether illusive, mocking, malicious Will-o'-the- wisp. The Roof of France A negligée of robin's-egg blue laid out upon the bed diffused a faint perfume, illusive and familiar. The Beautiful and Damned In the future, such persons seek a mitigation of the present; and the illusive enjoyments of the mind make them almost forget the real sufferings of the body. Paris as It Was and as It Is Whatever it may be, the priesthood, contented with exercising their power over the illiterate, ought to permit those men who do think, to be excused from bending the knee before their vain, illusive idols. The System of Nature, Volume 2 And ever she was illusive, and he never quite got to the end of her mystery. Three Weeks Even the very beauty of the landscapes is largely illusive,—a beauty of shifting colors and moving mists. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints Light as the gaudy rainbow's pillar'd gleam, That melts illusive from the wondering boy! The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes The weary day's laborious pace, I hasten and beguile By fancies, which I backwards trace To things I loved erstwhile; The weary sweetness of your face, Your faint, illusive smile. India's Love Lyrics Underlying the innumerable illusive appearances which we call the world is a reality, a being or force which is one. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur What does the wanton Fancy mean By such a strange, illusive scene? The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes After dinner, therefore, a short promenade about the streets and oasis, to court that illusive phantom, sleep, and to replenish the mind with new and peaceful images. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia From the times of Pericles or Augustus they turned to the Middle Ages, and, forgetting their crimes and miseries, threw around them a halo of illusive romance. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The purple hollow, and all the illusive distances of the gas-lit river, are Mr. Whistler's own. Modern Painting There were arbours, artificial ruins, darkling pathways, and the breathless garden was noisy in the illusive light. Esther Waters Instant from all who saw the illusive sign A murmur broke—"Miraculous! divine!" The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes The clamorous voices rang in her ears; vague shapes, illusive and shadowy, appeared to float before her eyes. The Shadow of the East He was not a man given to illusive fancies, and throughout a long political career nothing had been permitted to escape his keen and penetrating eye. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The arms and wrists and hands of the lady seated among the blue cushions in the Louvre are as illusive as any one of Mr. Whistler's "Nocturnes". Modern Painting Instead of mapping coasts and islands, the principal duty was exploration of tempestuous seas in high latitudes, amongst ice, searching in vain for the illusive southern land. Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World It was one of the downward steps, however, by which royalty lost its illusive splendor in France, and became gradually cheapened in the public mind. The Crayon Papers Next morning thought came to her once more with eternal illusive hope. Jean-Christophe, Volume I Dieu! how often during those slow, quiet years in the little hamlet yonder on the plain, had its sweetness and lightness mocked his tongue with illusive tasting! In and out of Three Normady Inns It would be interesting to inquire into such recondite and illusive phenomena; and I am surprised that no paper on so interesting a question has appeared in any of our art journals. Modern Painting It was never expressed in word nor in action but it came leaping sometimes, like fire, into the midst of their conversation—it was never tangible—always illusive. Fortitude The worst effect of this illusive system was the mania for gain, or rather for gambling in stocks, that now seized upon the whole nation. The Crayon Papers Three long windows faced the Lungarno, but two were screened with green slatted blinds and heavily draped, and the light within was silvery and illusive. The Happy End From such examples, Lucia, we may learn To dread those prospects of illusive fortune, Which shew like havens on a treach'rous shore, And lure us to our ruin. The Female Gamester A Tragedy They were singing their mysterious, alluring and illusive songs. Tales of the Wilderness May it never be the lot of my reader to be misled by the illusive mirage as I have been. Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America He could not withstand the excitement of any sally of feeling or fancy, and was prone to lend heightening tints to the illusive coloring of youthful anticipation. The Crayon Papers This quality of utter helplessness gave the menace he divined in her its illusive air of unreality. The Happy End To be in love, to strive, yet not to possess—that is the poetry of love, sweet but illusive. The Created Legend The chief advantage of any such system is that a distinction is made between the two varieties of s, k, and t, and the presence of the illusive Arabic letter 'ayn is always indicated. The Koran (Al-Qur'an) There was a feeling of unchangingness about the wonderfully holding summer weather, and the general lazy routine, that was as delightful as it was illusive. The Wishing-Ring Man The repeated decrees of this nature, the object of which was to depreciate the value of gold, and increase the illusive credit of paper, began to awaken doubts of a system which required such bolstering. The Crayon Papers Sometimes in the twilight, a solitary form, magnified by the illusive hour, might be seen standing on the brink of the steep, large and black against the clear sky. Coningsby Had soul communed with soul on that illusive borderland we range in dreams, the emblem of a deed of blood eloquent to reveal its secret? Tropic Days For even if Brahman possesses Mâyâ, i.e. illusive power, it cannot, without Nescience, be conscious of souls. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 No, this is to me like a strange illusive dream. Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans But this impatience and anger are entirely illusive. Suburban Sketches The little shaded lamp threw a circle of light round the bed, but left the rest of the room dim, and the dusky corners seemed full of odd new shadows that came and went illusively. The Sheik A story made to the order of a moral concept is always apt to advertise its origin, to the detriment of its illusive quality. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship A day resembling spring had come, illusive, but exquisite. Hilda Lessways On the other hand, the special-creation hypothesis is shown to be not even a thinkable hypothesis, and, while thus intellectually illusive, to have moral implications irreconcilable with the professed beliefs of those who hold it. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents He maintained that an inflated currency produced only temporary and illusive benefits. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders Caroline Helstone was eighteen years old, drawing near the confines of illusive dreams. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction Poetry, or rather the poetic sentiment, exalts all our pleasures and soothes all our afflictions by some illusive charm, whether it be turned into the channel of religion or romance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 It blooms triumphantly, and the old man bears it in his trembling hands to the carefully prepared furnace where fire must add to its beauty of form the illusive, decisive beauty of color. International Short Stories: French Then all illusive speculations merged abruptly into a realization that needed no demonstration. A Man and His Money It was all so illusive a breath might have blown it away; yet there it was, real as life,—a circular camp of white cone-shaped tepees, astir with Indian people. American Indian stories But when she consulted Boutan on the matter he dealt her a final blow by informing her that her hopes were quite illusive. Fruitfulness Dorn, in his intensity, in the over-emotion of his self-centered passion, so terribly driven to prove to himself something vague yet all-powerful, illusive yet imperious, divined what these Blue Devil soldiers had been through. The Desert of Wheat He will be subject to hot and cold fits of action and inactivity, of confidence and distrust, in proportion as the illusive vapour, that he follows, may either sparkle or fade before him. The Eulogies of Howard The same illusive prospect was used to make him jump over a stick, and perform a number of other evolutions. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 I believe he was never once startled from the dream of illusive joy which pictured to him all high aims as possible of realization through talk. Memories of Hawthorne It seemed to be a young Arctic wolf, yellowish white in colour, but tailless, Next day, at noon Preble and Billy returned bearing the illusive visitor; it was a large Lynx. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Spots and dots, shiny, illusive, bobbed along that break, behind the mounds, beyond the farther banks. The Desert of Wheat To gain shelter Scott decided to turn in towards the high cliffs of Coulman Island, the land of which looked illusively near as they approached it. The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition That shifting and illusive thing we call conscience was beginning to assert itself in divers ways. Philip Dru Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow 1920 - 1935 I must say no more, for I again find myself in the land of vague fancy, gliding phantoms and illusive nothings. The Story of a Child Her whole pose was instinct with challenge, with defiance, and in that moment I identified the illusive memory which the eyes of Madame so often had conjured up in my mind. Bat Wing No other writer and traveller of the period possessed to a more marked degree that sense of generous pity which makes the unfortunate appear to us in an illusive, almost ideal aspect. Two Years in the French West Indies It is very small, simple and faded, but it has all the artist's magic, that mocking, illusive refinement and hint of a vague arriere- pensee which mark every stroke of Leonardo's brush. Italian Hours Breakfast, dinner and tea came up with illusive regularity, and were all the most perfect of their kind; and we laughed and feasted in our vain security. Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor The work that he did after he attained freedom and swung away from Claude and Constable has an illusive, intangible, subtle and spiritual quality that no imitator can ever catch on his canvas. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists You have come newly into this case, and I assure you that its apparent simplicity is illusive. Bat Wing Your deep thinker is invariably a paradox-monger, because everything when probed to its bottom proves illusive, and is found to contain its own contradiction. Without Prejudice A step further might be on the firm earth, but more probably illusive, and dash him into the roaring Lynn, where he would be ingulfed at once in its furious whirlpool. The Scottish Chiefs Perhaps, after all, it was nothing but a dream, a miasma, a mirage, drawn by his own burning thought from the wastes and marshes of his mind peopled with illusive hopes and waterlogged by memories. Stella Fregelius After a fleeting illusive hope, prudence condemned me to acquiesce in the humble station of a mute. Memoirs of My Life and Writings His future loomed up in his mind as vague and as illusive as the village that now glared through the mist, white and phantasmal. Spring Days Though a large, fat man, none was more illusive, more difficult to realise, harder to get on terms of intimacy with. Celibates She wouldn't tell me much: she was too illusive and indefinite: she never could get the notion out of her head, somehow, that I remembered all about it, and was only pretending to forgetfulness. Recalled to Life But beyond this illusive light and these ever-changing vistas— what lies? AE in the Irish Theosophist A heavy mist lay very low on the water, making a sort of illusive grey light that showed nothing. Lord Jim There was in them and about them an illusive sense of death and the beauty of life. Spring Days The faces were leaned over—illusive foreshortenings which she could not hope to catch. Celibates The irregular heaps of scoria that have accumulated in the vicinity of the iron works give the place an illusive air of antiquity; bit it is neither ancient nor picturesque. The Stillwater Tragedy Beware, lest dazzled by illusive radiance thy Soul should linger and be caught in its deceptive light. AE in the Irish Theosophist I live in a place haunted by ghosts, and everything in life appears illusive. Without a Home The gift of oratory is too illusive, too much a matter of eye and voice and individuality, to allow of cold reproduction. The Masquerader But he has his joy none the less; it is in the pursuit and in the dream of capturing something illusive, mysterious, and inexpressibly beautiful. Afoot in England The brief and illusive gleam into the past was projected only from the present, resulting from what he had been told, not from what he recalled. Taken Alive There remained only the dream of the Whispering Hills and the illusive figure of a man,—an old man, sturdy of form and with blue eyes set in swarthy darkness. The Maid of the Whispering Hills It lies deeply rooted in the misconstruction of reality, grows up into the illusive ideas of appearances, and throws its dark shadow on life. The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan You must forgive me for what I am going to say," she added, in a completely different tone, "but crystal-gazing is such an illusive thing. The Masquerader Naturally, after quitting the spot, I looked at the first opportunity into a guide-book of the district, only to find that it contained not one word about those wonderful illusive sounds! Afoot in England I can pardon ignorance, but not hypocrisy; for however dreary the results of Truth, yet Truth alone prevails; its killing bolt destroys the illusive beauty of the Universe, but what then? Ardath All through those long days in the forest, those short blue nights under the velvet sky, one image had stood before him, calm, smiling, quivering with that illusive light which held men's hearts. The Maid of the Whispering Hills He must cling to it, lest he might lose that illusive feeling. The U. P. Trail The difference lay neither in feature, in coloring, nor in height, but in that baffling, illusive inner illumination that some call individuality, and others soul. The Masquerader |
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