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1 Her two months on the Sabrina had been especially calculated to aid this illusion of distance.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
2 The drug gave her a momentary illusion of complete renewal, from which she drew strength to take up her daily work.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
3 The discovery gave her an immediate illusion of activity: it was exhilarating to think that she had actually a reason for hurrying home.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
4 Miss Farish's heart was a fountain of tender illusions, Miss Stepney's a precise register of facts as manifested in their relation to herself.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
5 She had time to take a fresh survey of her wretchedness, and to fluctuate anew between the impulse to confide in Selden and the dread of destroying his illusions.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
6 Miss Farish could see no hope for her friend but in a life completely reorganized and detached from its old associations; whereas all Lily's energies were centred in the determined effort to hold fast to those associations, to keep herself visibly identified with them, as long as the illusion could be maintained.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
7 Mrs. Bry's TABLEAUX wanted none of the qualities which go to the producing of such illusions, and under Morpeth's organizing hand the pictures succeeded each other with the rhythmic march of some splendid frieze, in which the fugitive curves of living flesh and the wandering light of young eyes have been subdued to plastic harmony without losing the charm of life.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 12