delude

Example Sentences

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For Heavens sake Delude mine Eyes no longer! how came ye off?

From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (2 of 10) - the Humourous Lieutenant by Beaumont, Francis

An' aft your moss-traversing spunkies Decoy the wight that late and drunk is; The bleezin', curst, mischievous monkeys Delude his eyes, Till in some miry slough he sunk is, Ne'er mair to rise.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist

Even as horses on the green steppes grazing, Hundreds scattered through lonely peacefulness, If shadow of cloud or red fox breaking earth Delude but one with dream of a stealthy foe, All are stampeded.

From Miscellany of Poetry 1919 by Seymour, W. Kean

Flow on, O unconsenting sea, And keep my dead below; Though night—O utter night!—my soul, Delude thee long, I know, Or Life comes or Death comes, God leads the eternal flow.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various

Up and down, as if wringing from speed Sights that made the unsighted appear, Delude and dissolve, on it scoured.

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George