Away, ye chattering apes of a sophomorean Spinoza and Plato, who once didst all but delude me that the night was day, and pain only a tickle.
Listen, and do not delude thyself that I am crazy.
Prince Hal may deludehimself into the notion that he, the heir of England, with all the swelling emotions of soul that rendered him afterwards the conqueror of France, makes a butt of the ton of man that is his companion.
It was put in the boxes to delude you fellows and later secretly removed to the Raven.
Yes, you must remember," said Dave, "that their whole plan all along has been to delude their crew into the belief that the treasure went down in the Swallow.
Doctor,' quoth the madman, 'have a care what you say, and let not the devildelude you.
He can say, without any subterfuge or desire to delude himself, that he shall not wholly die; for he will have a better notion than the vulgar of what constitutes his being.
We may accordingly delude ourselves into imagining that a pose or a manner which really indicates habit indicates feeling instead.
He 'feels' extra resistance, and may accordingly delude himself that he is doing more work, if the slides close up; but in reality he is wasting his powers.
Did he not suffer most bitterly, because he esteemed and honored her too highly to make even an attempt to delude her about his condition?
And will she, who is about to inflict this pain upon him, attempt to delude herself and him with the fancy that she is making a sacrifice for his sake?
But at last, when we were again approaching our little house, in order not to delude her with false hopes, I remarked that I certainly greatly needed redemption and often longed for it with bitter pain.
Sometimes a sad dream does delude my sad mind; But, alas!
Either this is sheer folly, or else it is meant to delude the minister.
The friendly Onondaga carried his point; and the Iroquois, having failed to surprise their enemies, as they had hoped, now saw an opportunity to delude them by a truce.
He warned them against listening to bad men, who might seek to delude them by misrepresentations and falsehoods; and he urged them to give heed to none but "men of character, like the Sieur de la Salle.
The extensive areas burned over in days evidently prior to the advent of white men make it very apparent that these two agencies of destruction were then at work, as it is certain they have been since.
He seemed to have no difficulty in finding moose, but could not hit them, which was the exact reverse of our experience.
Whether you do or not after this, I respect you too much to let you delude yourself about my virtues, so I tell you the truth and abide the consequences.
Mind what you do, and be sure vanity doesn't delude you, for you are only a woman, and in tilings of this sort we are so blind and silly.
Not feeling sure whether it might be common prudence to delude him even passively, I thought of asking Janet for her opinion, but refrained.
But in any case, delude yourself as you please, your lofty baldness will assuredly be seen with time.
But he did not delude himself by imagining Cuba safe from further disturbances, either of her internal conditions or her relations to her enemies.
Such a man must plainly either have such confidence in his rhetoric as to adventure to prove that what has been once for all decided is still undetermined, or be bribed to try to delude us by elaborate sophisms.
And Circe, as the beautiful enchantress was called (who had deluded so many persons that she did not doubt of being able to delude Ulysses, not imagining how wise he was), again addressed him.
So far I will indulge you; but if you hope to gain any greater favor, and imagine that the whole predetermined course of the war is to be altered at your entreaty, you delude yourself with empty hopes.
For a moment it would die away, and the traveller would begin to delude himself into the belief that, exhausted with its previous fury, it had quietly laid itself down to rest, when, whoo!
But he is already entered; the public, more and more, as he is known, are appreciating his talents and worth; and his country would sustain a loss if these are checked by over delicacy on your part.
In compliance with Mr. Monroe's request, he made immediate arrangements to return to the United States.
What was to be gained by assuming a false position for an evening, and trying to delude himself into the notion that he was the equal of his old comrade?
With all the weapons of science discarded--this primitive struggle of man against man with the woman as prize--did the thought of that delude him into the belief that her love was his, now that he was killing me?
Did the man's egotism, here at the last, delude him into the belief that Elza wanted him to conquer me?
That was a conviction which, by no process of reflection, however ingenious, could she deludeherself to credit.
I, for love, and for the glamour of bright beguiling dreams that hover and delude and allure all lovers, could never until to-day behold clearly what person I was pestering with my notions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "delude" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
