illusively
- a word derived from illusive.
Example Sentences
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In the pleasant, well-appointed drawing-room of the Svetilovitches, in the lifeless light of three electric globes with lustrous bronze fittings, the green-blue upholsterings of the Empire furniture seemed illusively beautiful.
From The Created Legend by Cournos, John
The fear that lurked illusively in the daughter was in the parent magnified to an appalling panic, an instinctive, acute agony that had crushed everything but a thin, tormented spark of life.
From Wild Oranges by Hergesheimer, Joseph
Did it recall that fatal day, when on the field of battle, a rival banner had waved ever illusively; ever beyond his reach?
From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart
Another trout snapped illusively, and we had him—larger by a quarter of a pound than the first.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey
The forest, a tangle of shrubs and strange creepers, was the scene of the idyl; she, a sprite of the greenwood, danced illusively through the maze.
From The Lady of the Mount by Isham, Frederic Stewart
