fond illusion
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It is a statistic which illustrates Trimble's underrated value and neatly explodes the fond illusion of Ulster grinding their way to victory with a narrow, kicking-obsessed game plan.
From The Guardian • Dec. 14, 2012
But we need not marvel: it is the difference of life and death: piercing the dimness even of man's darkened sense, jarring upon his fond illusion like waking realities upon a dream.
From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison
In absent reverie, she hears That voice, nor can forget; The fond illusion disappears,— Her arms are empty, yet.
From Mountain idylls, and Other Poems by King, Alfred Castner
It was a fond illusion amongst the boys that resin so applied deadened the effects of the cane.
From The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy by Dyson, Edward
But when she mourns o'er Mira's bier, And when the fond illusion ends, Oh! then shall fall the genuine tear That drops for dear departed friends!
From Poems by Carr, John, Sir
