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At first the ascent was delusively easy, the sides of the mountain sloped gradually, and the material of which they were composed was a soft spongy turf, very tender and pleasant to walk upon.
From Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Dickens, Charles
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)
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
Long destroyed, long ruined, it blends with the rocks, continuing and delusively ending them by the broken, dented line of its batteries, its shattered roofs, its half-crumbled towers.
From The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Bernstein, Herman
That man thinks much too highly, and therefore he thinks weakly and delusively, of any contrivance of human wisdom, who believes that it can make any sort of approach to perfection.
From Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. by Morley, Henry
