Illusions

Examples

• Surely, I would say, all men do not wear those shocking nightcaps; else all women's illusions had been destroyed on the first night of their marriage! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• If she were sickly she would have her illusions, imaginations. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Falsehoods and illusions ascend to take their place; the prodigal goes back into the country of the Lotophagi or drones, and openly dwells there. Plato. The Republic.
• Yet there were some illusions under Mary's eyes which were not quite comic to her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Refraction is the source of many illusions; bent rays of light make objects appear where they really are not. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• What illusions I put in thee and how they have turned out! Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• All France might worship him, but she had no illusions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You must not get illusions about it now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But this proceeds merely from an illusion of the imagination; and the question is, how far we ought to yield to these illusions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Miss Farish's heart was a fountain of tender illusions, Miss Stepney's a precise register of facts as manifested in their relation to herself. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He will pass through all its illusions, half believe in them, wholly enjoy them, then outlive them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Turning as from a fallen idol, she made other discoveries which rapidly dispelled her romantic illusions. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The simple illusions of her girlhood are gone, and my hand has stripped them off. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He would only want her to be herself--he knew her verily, with a subconscious, sinister knowledge, devoid of illusions and hopes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I wonder you have time for such illusions, occupied as your mind must be. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• There are no optical illusions more extraordinary than those shown in the exhibition of Dissolving Views. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Three days afterwards Lydgate was at his galvanism again in his Paris chambers, believing that illusions were at an end for him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Half-truths and illusions, if you like, but tonic. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He wanted to keep certain illusions, certain ideas like clothing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I declare, for one moment I thought of Graham and his spectral illusions. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• One of the most beautiful as well as the most remarkable pictorial illusions is produced by the combination of two views into one by the recently invented instrument called the Stereoscope. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• No; only gauze, crockery, and pink blossom--a sample of earthly illusions. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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