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  • Delusive colours, amorphous and ambiguous shapes came together as now to reveal the first recognizable outline of the finished picture.

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

  • [12] Will Herberg, "McCarthy and Hitler: A Delusive Parallel," The New R.public, August 23, 1954, pp. 13-15 (also in J.seph R. McCarthy, edited by Allen J. Matusow, Prentice-Hall, 1970, p. 124).

    Un-American Activities Tanenhaus, Sam 2000

  • Petition. it is wrong and Delusive Severall of them gave no Consent to any Such thing And to compleat their Guile have entered the names of four persons who has no Interest in that part of the town viz Swallow Tucker Ames & Green

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884 Various

  • Carlyle in 1850 had asked whether 'democracy once modelled into suffrages, furnished with ballot-boxes and such-like, will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from Delusive to Real,' and had answered, 'Your ship cannot double Cape Horn by its excellent plans of voting.

    Human Nature in Politics Third Edition Graham Wallas 1895

  • Delusive love drove away with a credulous maiden, under an English heaven, on a coach and four, from a windy hill-top, to a crash below, and a stunned recovery in the street of small shops, mud, rain, gloom, language like musket-fire and the wailing wounded.

    The Amazing Marriage — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

  • Delusive love drove away with a credulous maiden, under an

    The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Delusive love drove away with a credulous maiden, under an English heaven, on a coach and four, from a windy hill-top, to a crash below, and

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Delusive to Real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by?

    Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Delusive yet fascinating objects of contemplation!

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • First Attack: Delusive Hopes -- General d'Arblay presented to the

    The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 Fanny Burney 1796

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