He was a man not merely religious, but devout; a firm believer--not as the phrase is now
elusively construed by theological thimble-riggers in the Church and out of it, but in the old and ardent sense of the Evangelical school: one who could
Then came a little valley overgrown with the pale purple bloom of thistles and
elusively haunted with their perfume.
I was endeavouring to gather the loose ends of many thoughts and memories which flitted
elusively through my tired and overwrought brain.
Yet did it quiver under the finger-tip caress in rhythmic vibrations that became whisperings and rustlings and mutterings of sound--but of sound so different; so
elusively thin that it was shimmeringly sibilant; so mellow that it was maddening sweet, piping like an elfin horn, which last was just what Bassett decided would be like a peal from some bell of the gods reaching earthward from across space.
For these two men had SEEN her, while to me she was only being "presented,"
elusively, in vanishing words, in the shifting tones of an unfamiliar voice.
Zog fails pretty much across the board and Madame Dragon's gold stars remain
elusively out of reach.
To India's literary-minded he also featured in 2018's Latitudes of Longing, Shubhangi Swarup's novel in which the Earth's geological nature is also a character: in it, an Indian scientist working in the Himalayan glaciers hallucinates (or is it hallucination?) about a yellow-eyed Yeti wandering about
elusively on the ice outside.
Did that oneness with the Father God seem
elusively difficult to re-capture?
And to go even further beyond, to the
elusively hidden Double O arch, requires nerves of steel as you shimmy over a monumentally steep stone 'fin'.
And to go even farther beyond, to the
elusively hidden Double O arch, requires nerves of steel as you shimmy over a monumentally steep stone "fin".
Perhaps this has to do with its position as a frontier--at the crossroads of South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia--where it is
elusively difficult to chart exactly what is happening.
Thus, we have
elusively experience ourselves as independent, separated from the living network.