233 examples of elusive in sentences
Ordinarily officers of the U.S. Navy do not scuttle on deck like a crowd of curious schoolgirls, but all hands had been keyed to a high pitch over the elusive light, and the bet with Edwards now served as an excuse for the betrayal of unusual eagerness.
When such men have it in their hands, they feel dimly that they are laying tangible hold at last on some elusive vision of happiness that has hitherto escaped them.
Cartwright knew the strange chill one felt when ice was about and the faint elusive blink that marked its edge in the dark.
Nay, fold your arms, beloved Friends, Above the hearts that vainly beat! Or catch the rainbow where it bends, And find your darling at its feet; Or fix the fountain's varying shape, The sunset-cloud's elusive dye, The speech of winds that round the cape Make music to the sea and sky: So may you summon from the air
Moreover, it seemed to me, who now saw them for the first time together, that there was an unnamable somethingan elusive quality of some kindthat marked them as belonging to the same world, and that although the girl ignored him she was secretly, and perhaps unknown to herself, drawn by some attribute very deep in her own nature to some quality equally deep in his.
Joan, meanwhile, Joan, elusive creature of the wilds, became I know not exactly what.
Adj. violating &c v.; lawless, transgressive; elusive, evasive. unfulfilled &c (fulfill) &c 772.
In this fashion they searched for the elusive tick-tick.
He was absent ten days, and on his return Oxley determined to abandon the Macquarie, which had proved even more deceptive and elusive than the Lachlan, and to strike out for the higher lands which Evans reported having seen.
Hume had found a serpentine sheet of water to the north which he was inclined to think was the continuation of the elusive Macquarie.
It was too utterly elusive, made, protæan.
We noticed that she used plenty of hot water and clean rags, and that she rubbed the glass until it sparkled, leaning perilously sideways on the ladder to detect elusive streaks.
For an instant his mind seemed to hover at the edge of a more elusive memory; but he could not quite seize upon it.
The soft, morning light fell gently upon it, bringing out its springtime freshness and the elusive shades of gold in her hair.
The history of civilisation is really the history of the appearance and reappearance, the tentatives and hesitations and alterations, the manifestations and reflections in this mind and that, of a very complex, imperfect elusive idea, the Social Idea.
All this is really very subtle and elusive; it is very difficult to separate what is mere slavishness from what is a sort of vicarious nobility in the English love of a lord.
They are elusive, fugitive; they fly even from praise.
It sounds well, tooGeorgiana! Georgiana, then, is a rather elusive character.
One sang it with indignation; another with remonstrance; still another with resignation; others yet with ethereal sadness or wild elusive pain.
He sat in the breathing darkness, staring at the dim elusive shape that had presented that remembered face.
All new science is elusive.
Then indeed one seemed to be nearer that elusive something that threaded it all together.
the elusive fundamental ... I make a rule, I never tell myself liesnever.
The echo of the laugh that he had heard in his dream still sounded in his ears, a tantalizing, compelling note, elusive as the Pipes of Pan, luring as a will-o'-the-wisp.
" "I fear, my lord," said Campo-Basso, with a sympathetic desire to make trouble, if possible, "that His Majesty delays an answer while he frames one that shall be elusive, yet conciliatory.