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I made a good many mistakes, of course, for there is more than meets the eye in remunerative gardening, chicken farming, and bee-keeping, as there is in most human occupations which appear delusively simple.

From The Quest of the Simple Life by Dawson, William J.

In those days of blissful ignorance I had, of course, no conception of the difficulties of art, and was making that delusively rapid apparent progress which is so very encouraging to all incipient amateurs.

From Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert

The past, of which he had delusively believed himself to be master long ago, ever stretched its spectre-like form in front of him with more threatening mien.

From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann

All sorrow left me; I realized anew that God wants His children to love everything as a part of Him, and not to feel delusively that death ends all.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa

One other element invokes perpetual thanksgiving—the flaked mica, which glistens delusively with hues of silver and gold, and gives to the tide-swept track that singular pliancy which resists the stamp of passing generations.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)