It was perceptible that he had already had glimpses of strange and subtle matters in those dark caverns, into which all men must descend, if they would know anything beneath the surface and illusive pleasures of existence.
Kenyon would have besought her for more definite intelligence, but she shook her head, put her finger on her lips, and turned away with an illusive smile.
And below him, flooded and half-hidden in the illusive sun-mist, was Marette's old home.
Their world--the world which, in an illusive and unreal sort of way, had been a part of his dreams all his life.
For me I am weary of battle-fields, and feel no desire to grasp afterillusive flowers and fading grass.
It would be interesting to inquire into such recondite and illusive phenomena; and I am surprised that no paper on so interesting a question has appeared in any of our art journals.
The purple hollow, and all the illusive distances of the gas-lit river, are Mr. Whistler's own.
The arms and wrists and hands of the lady seated among the blue cushions in the Louvre are as illusive as any one of Mr. Whistler's "Nocturnes".
An illusive hope that reconciles us with to-day," answered the plaisant.
Into the past, having gone so far, he stepped now boldly, as though to grasp again those illusive colors and seize anew the intangible substance.
In the basin of the fountain tiny fish played and darted, and as his eyes turned from her to them they appeared as swift and illusive as his own surging fancies.
Her face wore a proud, self-reliant expression; her eyes that look which had made her seem soillusive from the inception of their acquaintance.
At Passover there had been an illusive augmentation of advertisements proclaiming the virtues of unleavened everything.
It lies deeply rooted in the misconstruction of reality, grows up into the illusive ideas of appearances, and throws its dark shadow on life.
Ye that seek after truth, if ye would attain to Buddhahood, clearly understand which is the subtler and which is the grosser (form of illusive ideas), which is the originator and which is the originated.
There remained only the dream of the Whispering Hills and the illusive figure of a man,--an old man, sturdy of form and with blue eyes set in swarthy darkness.
There have been, on the other hand, those who, having some of the external eccentricities of genius, have given an illusive impression of greatness.
Sight of its illusive form could always sweep away his doubts; straighten his shoulders.
But the third will be disengaged from within the ship and she will be free as a bird to fly to your most illusive Moon!
Thick, within and around us, lie the rich veins of illusive suggestion from which they spring.
We may now look into a broader seam of illusive power--one which lies entirely within ourselves, and needs no objective influence to bring its ghost-producing fertility into play.
There Abraham helped his father clear another piece of land for another illusive "start" in life.
About all that can be disengaged from this cloud of illusive witnesses is that Springfield wondered why Mary Todd married Lincoln.
The question of useful life depreciation, direct and indirect, due to decrepitude or obsolescence, or both, is one of the illusive questions; and then comes the value of the franchise.
The subjects are so fugitive and so illusive that very much depends on the point of view.
Farther away some reeds were visible in the illusive light, and the meditative chatter of dozing ducks stirred the silence which wrapped the country like a cloak.
Far from rendering the Italian drama less imaginative, I think we ought in every way to increase the illusive pleasure of the audience.
England is full of such people, and a hundred other varieties of peripatetic tricksters, higher than these, and lower, who act their parts tolerably well, but seldom with an absolutely illusive effect.
