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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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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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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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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Illusive winter woods in silence, broken by the snap of heavy wings, an owl in flight.† (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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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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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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A heavy mist lay very low on the water, making a sort of illusive grey light that showed nothing.† (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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Always, it appeared, the illusive little ball was not where he aimed.† (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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As I had not the same desperate reasons as M. le Vicomte for accepting death, I returned, after giving him a word of encouragement, to my panel, but I had made the mistake of taking a few steps while speaking and, in the tangle of the illusive forest, I was no longer able to find my panel for certain!† (source)
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