For a while I lay luxuriating as in the delusion of a pleasant dream, as though the melody that was abroad on the air was the voices of angels chanting their lullaby into the charmed ear of the sleeper.

The want of discernment of what was going on outside the sphere of her own psychology led her into fatal delusions as to the attitude of England, of Ireland, of Belgium, Italy, India, and so forth.

Needless to say I ignored trains, which are a snare and delusion in these days.

"The thing has delusion on the front of it.

"Go on in, Betty," said the physical culture teacher, who labored under no delusions about the duties of a peacemaker.

This, my lords, must be the delusion by which some states are induced to favour, and others to neglect the encroachments of France.

Here the delusion under which he laboured gradually wore away; he acknowledged that his mind had been in darkness, the consequence and punishment of spiritual pride; and declared that, inasmuch as he had given advantage to the evil spirit, he took shame to himself.

On his way, he had almost effaced the unexpected delusion from his mind by the most sufficient reasons.

Hence, when horrid scenes of cruelty are represented in pictures, we wish to disbelieve their existence, and voluntarily exert ourselves to escape from the deception: whereas the bitter cup of true Tragedy is mingled with some sweet consolatory drops, which endear our tears, and we continue to contemplate the interesting delusion with a delight which it is not easy to explain.

It is the most dangerous of delusions for each and all of them to suppose that either Britain, France or Italy can ever stand alone again and be secure.

It was the mistake of 1775, it was the mistake of 1812, and strange to say Americans still hug the delusion to their breasts that Canada favors annexation.

A delusion like hers has all the stability of a perfectly sane belief.

and why do you wish to keep up the delusion among your relatives, even so far as to drive your aunt to the point of getting you divorced from your airy husband?"

" "It seems, then, we labored under a delusion at the North.

But the hallucination of an audible voice, of course, is one of the commonest forms of delusion due to mental excitementan excitement, my dear boy, perfectly excusable, and, let me add, wonderfully controlled by you under the circumstances.

These are among the delusions against which none of us are protected.

Their reputation as a people of exceptionally military quality sprang up in the weed-bed of human delusions between 1866 and 1872; it will certainly not survive this war.

As he was extremely amorous, and had so little in him to inspire the tender Passion, the first Proof he gave of his Art, was to ... cast such a Delusion before the Eyes of all who saw him, that he appeared to them such as he wished to be, a most comely and graceful Man.

"It may be affirmed, that the superstitions of this creed have only gradually become an almost senseless delusion through corruption and misunderstanding.