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Sentences ending with delusion

But the beauty was a delusion. [11]
Was he the victim of a delusion? [10]
Perhaps then the tormenting thought that blighted his life, the dread that in the prison he had ceased to be an artist, and had lost all his faculty was nothing more than a mad delusion! [10]
Being awake, my thoughts were busy, of course; and mainly they busied themselves with Sandy's curious delusion. [5]
In summing up the religious history of New England, it would be just and proper to show the agency of the Mathers, father and son, in the witchcraft delusion. [6]
I fancied that the neighborhood had not changed, but the coming of Margaret showed me that this was a delusion. [4]
You descend beneath the level of human understanding by madly wallowing in the mire; and the more clearly you are convinced that you have seized the truth, the more utterly you are involved in the toils of a miserable delusion. [10]
I cannot call the Egyptian constancy a virtue, it is a delusion. [10]
The wife of Selah Withers was accused of sorcery in the evil days of that delusion. [6]
Did he see rightly, or was he under some delusion? [10]

Short sentences using delusion

Was this a delusion? [4]
It is a delusion. [5]
Another delusion. [4]

Sentences containing delusion two or more times

Wherever he shows himself, delusion follows delusion, and every one redounds to his advantage, for whoever took him for an insignificant man must doff his hat when he utters his name. [10]
Delusion, my poor dear, delusion at least nineteen times out of twenty, yes, ninety-nine times in a hundred. [6]

More example sentences with the word delusion in them

I can tell you, Mr. Burnett, and when you are over this delusion you will thank me for being so plain with you, my daughter would laugh at the idea of such a proposal. [4]
It would be worth a year of battles to abolish this delusion, though the great sponge of war that wiped it out were moistened with the best blood of the land. [6]
Soon his delusion will pass away and be forgotten, and his poor mind will be whole again. [5]
It would be wasted time to try to argue her out of her delusion, it couldn't be done; I must just humor it. [5]
Why, yes, he was certainly in a delusion, at least in a reverie. [4]
He had laboured under the delusion that matrimonial conditions were still what they had been in the Eighteenth Century--although it is doubtful whether he had ever thought of that century. [9]
This is the theory; but, in fact, the Gulf Stream is mostly a delusion as to New England. [4]
Its maps of the surface of the head are, I feel sure, founded on a delusion, but its studies of individual character are always interesting and instructive. [3]
Commonly, the cause, the sect, the party, the trade, the delusion, the idea, gets its newspaper, its organ, its advocate, only when some individual thinks he can see a pecuniary return in establishing it. [4]
He feeds on the madder of his delusion all his days, and his very bones grow red with the glow of his foolish fancy. [6]
The confidence of the few believers in this delusion will never survive the loss of friends who may die of any acute disease, under a treatment such as that prescribed by Homoeopathy. [3]
For the moment, the delusion that his power was still limitless prevailed, and her faith whole again, so many times had he mended a world all awry. [9]
It's a delusion that we can insure ourselves by remaining within its walls--we have to risk our lives and our souls. [9]
Then you believe that such tendency toward doing good as is in men's hearts would not be diminished by the removal of the delusion that good deeds are done primarily for the sake of No. [5]
The artist had shrewdly heightened the delusion by painting dust on the creatures' backs, as if it had fallen there naturally and properly. [5]
The delusion that she somehow had been miraculously snatched up into it was marred by their glances. [9]
Nor was what she heard in her half-dozing state, which was soon followed by the sound slumber of youth, any delusion of the senses. [10]
However, I am satisfied to know that your delusion has come to so abrupt, and in my opinion so happy, an end. [10]
Barrow's task was particularly hard, because he was made a confidant in full, and therefore had to humor Tracy's delusion that he had a father, and that the father was an earl, and that he was going to send a cablegram. [5]
They even help out the delusion by building bridges over it. [5]
There were some others, however, who, believing the public to labor under a delusion, thought it worth while to see whether the charm would be broken by an open trial of its virtue, as compared with that of some less hallowed formula. [3]
Columbus made voyaging on the Atlantic popular, and is responsible for much of the delusion concerning it. [4]
The miserable delusion of witchcraft illustrates, in a still more impressive way, the false ideas which governed the supposed relation of men with the spiritual world. [3]
A very world of solid weight, and yet it seems in the soft moonlight only a fairy delusion of frost-work that might vanish with a breath! [5]
In my character of Pontiff, I should tell these young persons that most of them labored under a delusion. [6]
The great delusion of mankind is in supposing that to be individual and exceptional which is universal and according to law. [6]
The miserable delusion of Homoeopathy builds itself upon an axiom directly the opposite of this; namely, that the sick are to be cured by poisons. [6]
Years upon years of delusion of her people, of sacrifice to policy, had at last become a self-delusion, to which her eyes were not full opened yet--she sought to shut them tight. [11]
At the end of a week we recognized that this switch business was a delusion and a snare. [5]
Driven by this new delusion, the king took no rest by day or night, till at last his over-ridden and ill-used horse fell with him, and he was severely wounded in the fall by his own dagger. [10]
They put into my hands some of those little things that cost ten cents a box, but they are a delusion. [5]
It seems a most strange delusion and not reconcilable with our superstition that man is a reasoning being. [5]
He disguised no misery to himself with the lying delusion of wine. [6]
And that I might keep up a kind delusion that I was not quite alone in the bowels of the earth, I reached out my hand and affectionately drew the blades of corn between my fingers. [11]
The thought that many others, too, would be glad to step into his shoes tortured Wolff's honest heart as though he himself were to blame for the delusion of these short-sighted folk. [10]
Since for so many months he had firmly believed his friend's work to be his own, he might also have fallen into another delusion, and Myrtilus might still dwell among the living. [10]
They now led Mandane to the fire, and with farcical reverence requested her to be seated on her throne--an empty color cask, for she suffered under the strange permanent delusion that she was the wife of the Mukaukas George. [10]
Your view of life is a regrettable delusion. [2]
This trait has its advantages; nowhere else will a delusion run so fast, and so soon run up a tree--another of our happy phrases. [4]
For one moment it was an unbelievable thing--a thing beyond all credibility; it must be a delusion, a dream, a nightmare. [5]
I suppose there is no delusion more general than that of retiring upon a fortune--as if, when gained, a fortune would let a person retire, or, still more improbable, as if it ever were really attained. [4]
Half the time I'm under the delusion that I'm entertaining a celebrity under my roof, and I wake up and it's only Hugh. [9]
For my part, I am superstitious in my admiration of them, and like to walk in a perpetual delusion, decking them out as divinities. [4]
For the American hugs the delusion that there are no class distinctions, even though his whole existence may be an effort to rise out of once class into another. [9]
Her service to him was unflagging, but he had never been under the slightest delusion that it was not an inheritance from his wife. [9]
Did she lull herself in the delusion that she cared only for the welfare of the soul of the pious young knight? [10]
Some of them gave him glances that seemed to say, "You belong to us," and almost succeeded in establishing the delusion. [9]
I determined to explore it, fully expecting, however, that it would prove to be a delusion, as such mysterious haunts of the trout usually are. [4]
But upon that event I became convinced that either I had been resting in a delusion, or the institution was being placed on a new basis, a basis for making it perpetual, national, and universal. [7]
The cripples of Europe are a delusion and a fraud. [5]
It was clear enough that Harry's delusion must be broken up, and that no such feeble obstacle as his passion could interpose would turn Laura from her fate. [5]
But it probably does more harm than good to medical science at the present time, by keeping up the delusion of treating everything by specifics,--the old barbarous notion that sick people should feed on poisons [Lachesis, arrow-poison, obtained from a serpent (Pulte). [6]
It's all _amateur_--mechanical details all right, almost to a hair; everything about the delusion perfect, except that it don't delude. [5]
In that miserable delusion referred to above, the reverend Aztecs and Fijians argued rightly enough from their premises, no doubt, for many men can do this. [6]
And then, this delusion of believing that we are masters of our own destiny--" She paused and pressed my fingers. [9]
It was mere delusion and deception. [10]
It is a delusion and a snare to trust in any such false and flimsy reasons where there is enough and more than enough in the institution itself to account for its growth. [6]
There is a curious delusion that a rider has in crossing a swift broad stream. [4]
The delusion is complete, when, on a mild evening, the tree-toads open their brittle-brattle chorus on the edge of the pond. [4]
She did not by any means share all the delusion of the family; but her brain was not seldom busy with schemes about it. [5]
Often he laughed at my laborious efforts, but his brilliant powers appeared to me a vain delusion. [10]
But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. [2]
We are the annual victims of the delusion that there exists somewhere the ideal spot where manners are simple, and milk is pure, and lodging is cheap, where we shall fall at once into content. [4]
And he says, also, "The Swinnerton family were all along opposed to Mr. Parris, and kept remarkably clear from the witchcraft delusion. [3]
But it was all a heathen delusion, all the trickery and jugglery of the Devil, though she had failed to see through it, and had given herself up to it, heart and soul. [10]
Her voice and action checked his rage, for he had not lost reverence for his mother; but her look of intense anger and contempt, which he clearly saw and could not forget, begot a fresh delusion in his mind. [10]
Privately and in a very still way, she was occupying herself with the problem of the young stranger, the subject of some delusion, or disease, or obliquity of unknown nature, to which the vague name of antipathy had been attached. [6]
An excellent person, a most worthy dissenting minister, but lying under a strange delusion. [6]
Though so loud a denial is written on your face, I persist in my conviction, and that no idle delusion ensnares me I can prove! [10]
It is not a delusion that one can afford to die for it. [4]

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