illude
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Those are questions that illude Armstrong & Co. and that’s unfortunate.
From Time ● Nov. 13, 2012
Which experience lessoneth them to illude this later, by appoynting certaine cotagers houses in euery parish to serue, nomine tenus, for that purpose.
From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew
This prefix thus appears as am-, an-, em-, en-, il-, im-, in-, ir-, as ambush, anoint, embrace, enclose, illude, immure, include, irritate.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The longer we gaze, the more surely does the picture illude us and enthral us, steeping us in that tragedy of 'the fruitless crown and barren sceptre.'
From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm
Little by little, as I came nearer, she ceased to illude me, and I began to think of her as 'it.'
From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm
Frail-witted, illuded they call me; I may be.
From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
We admit it, and willingly, and are at least as much illuded by it as by anything else we hear or see upon the stage.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
No, very certainly this man was not a rascal, but a poor, illuded being whose fortune had gone to his head like a wine too heavy for a stomach long accustomed to water.
From The Nabob by W. Blaydes
They will never complain of being desillusionnes, for they have never been illuded.
From Mary Marston by George MacDonald
In her overwrought and harassed condition, the sophistry illuded her; she was sensible only of the menace his words distilled.
From The Bandbox by Louis Joseph Vance
Nature is for ever illuding the senses; she masquerades in disguise until science tears away her mask.
From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans Wentz
Slowly schooling himself to assume a masque of illuding self-possession and composure, he passed down the corridor to the door whose panels wore the painted legend, 17; and there knocked.
From The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance
We are in the open, the sun blazes in the blue, and all is gay, atmospheric, and illuding.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker
