Sample Sentences forillusive (auto-selected)
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There were no shadows under the trees but everywhere a pearly stillness, so that what was real seemed illusive and without definition.† (source)
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I feel again the chaotic emotions of adolescence, illusive as smoke, yet as real as the potted geranium before me now.† (source)
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Public gossip attributed the romantic adventures of his verses to his own life, but although he had numerous liaisons, true love remained as illusive and as unattainable for him as Novalis's blue flower.† (source)
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Moonlight, in a familiar room, falling so white upon the carpet, and showing all its figures so distinctly—making every object so minutely visible, yet so unlike a morning or noontide visibility—is a medium the most suitable for a romance-writer to get acquainted with his illusive guests.† (source)
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He was for some time without reflection or thought for the divine charm which is in the things of nature, specially after a fantastic dream; then gradually this view of the outer world, so calm, so pure, so grand, reminded him of the illusiveness of his vision, and once more awakened memory.† (source)
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The fate of the world rests on one illusive virus and its cure.† (source)
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But the plague forced inactivity on them, limiting their movements to the same dull round inside the town, and throwing them, day after day, on the illusive solace of their memories.† (source)
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Illusive winter woods in silence, broken by the snap of heavy wings, an owl in flight.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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She had power to sit up, hold the reins, guide the horses toward that futile illusive landmark days away on the horizon, but she could not control her mind.† (source)
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Some who have lain flat on the ice for a long time, looking down through the illusive medium, perchance with watery eyes into the bargain, and driven to hasty conclusions by the fear of catching cold in their breasts, have seen vast holes "into which a load of hay might be driven," if there were anybody to drive it, the undoubted source of the Styx and entrance to the Infernal Regions from these parts.† (source)
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Here were great oaks and splendid evergreens with trunks like mossy pillars, from the branches of which hung garlands of ivy and mistletoe, and persimmon trees, the odour of which pervaded every nook and corner of the wood—an illusive, fragrant something that made the heart glad.† (source)
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A heavy mist lay very low on the water, making a sort of illusive grey light that showed nothing.† (source)
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Miss Ophelia and the physician alone felt no encouragement from this illusive truce.† (source)
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She looked from near to far, trying to grasp the illusive something.† (source)
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A dozen times they'd been very hopeful of uncovering a virus with precisely the illusive characteristics they required.† (source)
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