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Definition of Elusively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elusively
Literary usage of Elusively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott (1828)
"elusively filled with his own fancied injuries, as to be equally unwilling and
unable to attend to reason or argument. Albany alone, calm and crafty, ..."
2. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1920)
"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 ..."
3. The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by Herbert George Wells (1897)
"The whole subject is a network of riddles — a network with solutions glimmering
elusively through. And being but two and twenty and full of enthusiasm, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"... residual phenomena pertaining to determinations of aberration, parallaxes,
latitudes and the like, which have heretofore flitted elusively about the ..."
5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1903)
"It is nearly as elusively attractive as "Madame Butterfly." "Captain Macklin,"
a story of modern life and adventure, is related with all the dash and wealth ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"... which have heretofore flitted elusively about the astronomy of precision during
the century ; or to reduce them to some tangible form by some simple, ..."
7. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1892)
"Mr. James Drummond, KSA, con- shown by his approval of Beaton's murder, elusively
refuted Carlyle in a paper read to and t he enactment of a death-penalty ..."
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