or is this sight only a delusion to fill us with hopes that's never to be satisfied?" "Pigeons are seldom wanting in this country, Mike, in the spring and autumn; though we have both birds and beasts, in plenty, that are preferable for food.

This young girl whom you see before you, so fresh and pretty, is the victim of a strange delusion.

Under the wizard influence of Shakespeare I had been walking all day in complete delusion.

* Extract from a letter recently received by a manufacturing firm: "We are pleased to be able to inform you that we have seen the Munitions Area delusion officer at , and he has informed us that he would not hesitate to grant Protection Certificates for these men.

" We sympathise too much with Labour to care to see it labouring under a delusion officer.

A native of that region saw fit to build his house very near it, and, having a fancy that it might blow down some time or other, and exterminate himself and any incidental relatives who might be "stopping" or "tarrying" with him,also laboring under the delusion that human life is under all circumstances to be preferred to vegetable existence,had the great poplar cut down.

A delusion seemed to have taken possession of our public men, that the people wanted doctors of the body-politic to rule over them, and, if those were not to be had, would put up with the next best thing,quacks.

I had hoped that part of the message might be a delusion.' 'What message?

'You have no right,' she said, 'to desert your natural and lawful duties, and your poor kinswomen too, who are desolate; you will break our hearts, you will ruin yourself, and all for a delusion.'

'It is no delusion,' said he; 'your own words, Althea, have confirmed to me the truth of my mission.

In the delusion that she was utterly solitary in the house, Florrie was whistling, not at all like a modest young woman, but like a carter.

But, if you can do so without prejudice, inquire into the motives that actuate you, and you will soon perceive that you are laboring under a delusion, and that we deceive you; that, everything well considered, you are the dupe of your vanity and of ours; that the worth of the person loved is only an excuse which gives an occasion for love, and is not the real cause.

He closed by saying to Kossuth: "It is because you, Sir, have learned the truth that Peace is the first interest of no people,that there are other things more sacred than human life,that without Justice and Freedom life is only a mockery, and peace a delusion and a burden,it is because, when tyranny had terminated every duty of a subject, you too

It is a delusion: it is the folly of anxiety!

The tired wayfarer, who is weary with the dust, the din, and stony footing of the Actual and the Present, may sometimes fondly imagine, that, if he could return to the far Past, he would find all smooth and golden there; but it is a pleasant delusion of that glorious arch-cheat, the Imagination.

On reading such words, it is natural to rub one's eyes, and suspect that all one has ever seen in this world may have been a pure ocular delusion.

But these idols we've burned And have latterly learned That "distinction"'s an utter delusion; For if you would aim At a popular fame You must cultivate "vim" or effusion.

The reader may believe, if he will, that the bird is aware of the imitative quality of the notes, and amuses itself by heightening the delusion of the looker-on.

In fact, I went more than once; but I remember especially my first visit, which had a livelier sentimental interest than the others because I was then under the agreeable delusion that the Prince himself had lived there.

"A most agreeable mental delusion.

Proceedings thus announced and matured must be distinguished from menaces of unlawful resistance by irregular bodies of people, who, acting under temporary delusion, may be restrained by reflection and the influence of public opinion from the commission of actual outrage.

It was hardly worth while to expose a delusion which is so apparent, especially in the case of Jefferson.

In short, the work was badly done; if not a snare, it was a delusion; and the reputation of the new journal fell below zero in twenty-four hours."

He said it made him invisiblea delusion I loyally supported.

It may be stated here, as another race fallacy, that the "telltale dark mark at the root of the nails," supposed to be an infallible test of Negro blood, is a delusion and a snare, and of no value whatever as a test of race.