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In the gloom of the darkening twilight, Swan stood leaning against the old tree and looking up the path where the figure had disappeared, doubting whether a vision had deluded his senses or not.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 by Various

The latter, therefore, had waked the unfortunate man up before he had been asleep five hours, and had deluded him into the belief that the aurora borealis was the first flush of daylight.

From Tent Life in Siberia by Kennan, George

What I lost—Ah! what I lost was respect for"—Blair choked—"for the institution that had deluded me.

From The Day of the Beast by Grey, Zane

Huss defended himself gallantly, with wonderful quickness of thought and dialectical skill, but nothing could be more unlike the free debate which he had deluded himself into anticipating when he left Prague.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

But when his lips opened to return her salute, he swallowed two or three woodlice that were walking over his face and by their tickling had deluded his sleeping senses into the agreeable fancy.

From The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country by Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard)