All 12 Uses of
deceive
in
The Rainbow Trail
- The great colored reaches and steps had led endlessly onward and upward through dim and deceiving distance.†
Chpt 1
- But it was the distance that deceived him.†
Chpt 1
- Could that purple be the sage Venters had so feelingly described, or was it merely the purple of deceiving distance?†
Chpt 2
- These distant deceiving features of the country held Shefford's gaze until the Indian drew his attention to things near at hand.†
Chpt 3
- If he had loved the glare, the endless level, the deceiving distance, the shifting sand, it had certainly not been as he loved this softer, wilder, more intimate upland.†
Chpt 10
- Shefford lifted his eyes to the Indian's, and if he did not see sadness there he was much deceived.†
Chpt 11
- Fay, you have been deceived by old men.†
Chpt 13 *
- Then he thought I had been deceiving him.†
Chpt 13
- Suddenly beneath him yawned a red-walled gulf, a deceiving gulf seen through transparent haze, a softly shining green-and-white valley, strange, wild, beautiful, like a picture in his memory.†
Chpt 16
- But beyond this wide area of curved lines rose another wall, dwarfing the lower, dark red, horizon—long, magnificent in frowning boldness, and because of its limitless deceiving surfaces, breaks, and lines, incomprehensible to the sight of man.†
Chpt 17
- Had he embarked yet on the river—did that blue line, so faint, so deceiving, hold him and the boat?†
Chpt 17
- And then farther on it became again a cleft, a purple line, at last to fail entirely in deceiving distance.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(deceive) to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality