It is the relativity of knowledge that dances before the eye, that bewilders, eludes, evades.

The swallow preys upon it, but it generally eludes the Bat.

Could you but find itto the Treasure-house, And peradventure to THE MASTER too; Whose secret Presence, through Creation's veins Running Quicksilver-like eludes your pains; Taking all shapes from Máh to Máhí; and They change and perish

With Fancy's hundred wisps what wonder that I've strayed, When Adam in his prudence was by a grain bewrayed? Excuse the wrangling sects, which number seventy-two: They knock at Fable's portal, for Truth eludes their view.

I would find another word, but it eludes me.

their gaping jaws eludes, And yet a moment lives; till round inclosed 270 By all the greedy pack, with infant screams She yields her breath, and there reluctant dies.

The magnitude and diversity of his work eludes definition.

The culprit always finds a sanctuary in the nearest church, till by the payment of some pecuniary mulct, he satisfies the demands of the priests, obtains absolution, appeases the resentment of the relations of the deceased, and eludes the arm of justice; he grows hardened by impunity, repeats his offences, and again escapes as before.

The best remedy then is by fair means; if that will not take place, to dissemble it as I say, or turn it off with a jest: hear Guexerra's advice in this case, vel joco excipies, vel silentio eludes; for if you take exceptions at everything your wife doth, Solomon's wisdom, Hercules' valour, Homer's learning, Socrates' patience, Argus' vigilance, will not serve turn.

Mr. Galsworthy's more delicate and unemphatic art eludes this danger, at any rate in Strife.

What, then, is the occasion and what the warrant for transforming perceived succession in time into causal succession, for substituting must for is, for interpreting the observed connection of fact into a necessary connection which always eludes observation?

In all this, however, we remain within the sphere of phenomena; the essence of nature always eludes our knowledge.

Yet, after all our labour, we are bound to confess that the man himself eludes our insight.

"We cannot but doubt the perfection of our criminal code, when we see that almost every criminal eludes the law, either by boldly avowing the crime, or by the tardiness with which legal prosecutions are carried on, or, lastly, by the convenient application of bail in criminal cases.

The air, in which we breathe and live, Eludes our touch and sight; The fairest flowers their fragrance give To stillness, and to night; The softest sounds that music flings, In passing, from her heaven-plumed wings, Are trackless in their flight!

Ready now for their admission, she lets the eager public in; but what they were most intent to find still eludes them.

What we desire eludes us at the moment of grasping itor those affections which are the foundation of our lives preoccupy us, and blind the soul.

Like all great creative geniuses, he is so completely identified with his work that even while his personality lives in his creations it eludes them.

It eludes all the vigilance, and baffles all the power of the adversary.

Here the Mind heaves a Thought now and then towards him, and hath some transient Glances of his Presence: When, in the Instant it thinks it self to have the fastest hold, the Object eludes its Expectations, and it falls back tired and baffled to the Ground.

Among the principal names of this moderate set is that great philosopher Jack Whirler, whose business keeps him in perpetual motion, and whose motion always eludes his business; who is always to do what he never does, who cannot stand still because he is wanted in another place, and who is wanted in many places because he stays in none.

Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Thus, hid in shades, eludes her eager swain; But feigns a laugh, to see me search around, And by that laugh the willing fair is found.

Corisca, wanton and cynical, plays, like Amarillis, the part of mischief-maker and deceiver, and, so far from seeking, like her successfully eludes the embraces of the shepherd-satyr.

The deer invites no longer Than it eludes the hound.

And groups of happy children played Around the verge of each cascade; Or gambol'd o'er the flowery lea In wanton mirth and joyous glee; Pursuing, o'er the sparkling lawn, The insect in its airy flight, Which still eludes, but tempting on From flower to flower, with plumage bright, The hand that woos to stay its flight Till soaring high, on pinions wild It leaves the charm'd and tearful child.