His continued elusion from the police creates a bad reputation for our law enforcement agency. From LearnThat.org.
Its elusion has left people impatient, frustrated and angry. From Wordnik.com. [Speech To The John F. Kennedy School Of Government] Reference
Pointing to the 25% white vote for him, I will bet, is an elusion. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Responds To Bill's Reference To Jesse Jackson] Reference
What if I am sleeping? what if this life is a lie just a big elusion?. From Wordnik.com. [lupee Diary Entry] Reference
A tension exists between the chase and elusion, the object and the desirer, with the passive and the aggressive personalities becoming interchangeable. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » Waking Dreams] Reference
At this point I will practice the part of elusion and escape. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Leader - Cleveland News & More!] Reference
A gingerbread gymnast, ladies 'man and mischievous master of elusion, the stupendous. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
Everything else that we think we can control, the things we complain and worry about; is an elusion. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Farrington's Blog] Reference
Some of the pricing we see in the market today suggest the elusion that the more favorable loss environment will last forever. From Wordnik.com. [Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference
Mr. Gladstone from the first insisted that if private remonstrance did not work 'without elusion or delay,' he would make a public appeal. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference
Ditto, very elaborately carved, and represented sitting on the ancient knife used in war expeditions to insure successful elusion of enemies. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594] Reference
There was not much time, however, for thought or elusion, and she yielded as calmly as she could to the necessity of letting him overtake her. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
Of all the phenomena of climate, the weight of the atmosphere is the most remarkable for its elusion of direct observation, when unaided by instruments. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
But when the categoric proposition is universal and necessary, but the privative is particular and not necessary; the con-r elusion will not be necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Works] Reference
I bought (and a better pair of steppers I dafy you to see in hany curracle,) I crisn'd Hull and Selby, in grateful elusion to my transackshns in that railroad. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
So what we're trying to get to is if the stock price is above, obviously it goes to 9.7 million shares and we would handle the elusion in a number of different ways. From Wordnik.com. [pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator (real estate blogs)] Reference
The planting of flowers on Fanny's grave had been perhaps but a species of elusion of the primary grief, and now it was as if his intention had been known and circumvented. From Wordnik.com. [Far from the Madding Crowd] Reference
And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Celebrity, Complete] Reference
Still, he could guess at her reasons; and he comprehended now that Ettarre had spoken a very terrible truth -- "All men I must evade at the last, and innumerable are the ways of my elusion.". From Wordnik.com. [The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions] Reference
Its commander, Lieutenant Duddington, took an active delight in his duty which brought him into perpetual antagonism with a people who regarded elusion of the revenue laws as their privilege and prerogative. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)] Reference
"My friend, all men have striven to do that; and I have evaded each one of them at the last, and innumerable are the ways of my elusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions] Reference
For igsample, the fust pair of hosses I bought (and a better pair of steppers I dafy you to see in hany curracle,) I crisn’d Hull and Selby, in grateful elusion to my transackshns in that railroad. From Wordnik.com. [The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters] Reference
To gore attempting, finds elusion still. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
"I want a poem real as an elusion.". From Wordnik.com. [dbqp: visualizing poetics] Reference
Canning. elusion. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the campaigns of the British forces in Spain and Portugal : undertaken to relieve those countries from the French usurpation : comprehending memoirs of the operations of this interesting war : characteristic reports of the Spanish and Portuguese troops, and illustrative anecdotes of distinguished military conduct in individuals, whatever their rank in the Army] Reference
'E's steeped in elusion! ". From Wordnik.com. [Private Peat] Reference
'E's steeped in elusion!”. From Wordnik.com. [Private Peat]
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