delusive

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Delusive hopes that lure the common herd With promises of ease, the heart's desire, In shadows, dreams, and smoke ye always end.

From The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 18 by Ormsby, John

Delusive hope! she quickly rose again; and in an instant, the far-off crashing of the jungle was all that told us of the reality of our late encounter.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various

Delusive was that piercing cry,— Some trick of magic by the foe; He has a work,—he cannot die, Beseech me not from hence to go.

From Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Dutt, Toru

Of all the pow'rs of Heav'n, my mother most Hath wrong'd me, who hath buoy'd me up with hope Delusive, that, before the walls of Troy, I should by Phoebus' swift-wing'd arrows fall.

From The Iliad by Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of

Canst thou not cease, inventive as thou art And subtle, from the wiles which thou hast loved Since thou wast infant, and from tricks of speech Delusive, even in thy native land?

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius