fond illusion
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It is a statistic which illustrates Trimble's underrated value and neatly explodes the fond illusion of Ulster grinding their way to victory with a narrow, kicking-obsessed game plan.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2012
Why, the—the—the fond illusion, and all that sort of thing.
From The American Baron by James De Mille
But we need not marvel: it is the difference of life and death: piercing the dimness even of man's darkened sense, jarring upon his fond illusion like waking realities upon a dream.
From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
The Germans harbored many a fond illusion before the war.
From A Minstrel in France by Sir Harry Lauder
Such, in the fond illusion of my heart, Such picture would I at that time have made; And seen the soul of truth in every part, A steadfast peace that might not be betray'd.
From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave
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