All 5 Uses of
elusive
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- There was a sum of five thousand francs promised to the man who laid hands on the mysterious and elusive Scarlet Pimpernel.†
Chpt 1
- That demmed, elusive Pimpernel" Sir Percy's BON MOT had gone the round of the brilliant reception-rooms.†
Chpt 12
- —who have seen a trick or two in my time—the mysterious and elusive Scarlet Pimpernel.†
Chpt 14
- the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel had proved elusive once more;
Chpt 15 *elusive = difficult to capture
- So strange, that Marguerite, wearied, overwrought as she was, thought that the beneficial unconsciousness of the approach of death was playing her half-sleeping senses a weird and elusive trick.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
difficult to get a hold of
(mentally such as a memory or description; or externally such as an achievement or physical capture)
(mentally such as a memory or description; or externally such as an achievement or physical capture)