Adjective : an elusive concept. ,a fish too elusive to catch. From Dictionary.com.
As I moved position, the perspective changed elusively. From Wordnik.com. [A Body In The Bath House]
Whole grains were also elusively expensive in supermarkets. From Wordnik.com. [The San Francisco Food Bank Challenge -- $1 a Person a Meal] Reference
Leonard asked what sort of thing, and Griselda said elusively. From Wordnik.com. [4.50 From Paddington]
Thoughts fly elusively, becoming one with mah bukkit. jd says. From Wordnik.com. [IMPOSTER! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
For many music acts of the time, royalties were elusively misplaced. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Eighty-One] Reference
“Maybe,” said Henry elusively, not wanting me to be able to estimate his age. From Wordnik.com. [THE EXTRA MAN] Reference
The man she was staring at was elusively familiar, and at last she recognized him. From Wordnik.com. [Music To My Sorrow]
It had a sweet, nutlike flavor, elusively familiar, tasting of anise and cinnamon. From Wordnik.com. [Tran Siberian] Reference
Staring up at the elusively white washed winter sky in a transfixed message to you. From Wordnik.com. [breakthedark Diary Entry] Reference
Seven seasons later that goal hasn't changed, and it is elusively, tantalizingly close. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Brinkley a global journeyman] Reference
However, the Frenchman has not been so elusively successful by not observing his enemies. From Wordnik.com. [Revealed-Kate Noble « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews] Reference
Under the shade of her thick, low brows her dark eyes darted — to and fro — elusively. From Wordnik.com. [Punin and Baburin] Reference
His tongue caressed elusively until she was surrounded by the hot, honeyed trap of his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Heaven's Price]
Tim shifted his elbows on the rock and studied elusively familiar faces through the binoculars. From Wordnik.com. [Lucifer's Hammer]
The whole subject is a network of riddles — a network with solutions glimmering elusively through. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Man] Reference
In glimpses of moonlight between the branches the pale shape shone elusively, drawing nearer to the path. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
There was nothing tenuous, elusively subtle, or impenetrably mysterious any longer about the ghostly apparition. From Wordnik.com. [Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation] Reference
The dark blue of his eyes had deepened, his gaze compelling, flames flickering elusively in the darkened depths. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of Expectations]
Picard grimaced as he suddenly realized why the images of the disappearing ships had seemed so elusively familiar to him. From Wordnik.com. [INTO THE NEBULA] Reference
Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial - notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. From Wordnik.com. [Truth, Lies, Errors and Bullshit About Iraq and Iran] Reference
Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial – notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. From Wordnik.com. [A Bunch of Bull « So Many Books] Reference
She sipped at his lips, y and elusively, until his tongue sank race again into the luscious temptation of her He made love to it. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast In Bed]
The last of her grazes, faded now almost to invisibility, hair-fine threads of white, showed elusively round the jar in her palm. From Wordnik.com. [The Raven In The Foregate]
A tall fellow, with something about him that seemed to Cadfael elusively familiar, though he had certainly never seen him before. From Wordnik.com. [His Disposition] Reference
'Well, it is a great matter,' he uttered elusively. From Wordnik.com. [Privy Seal His Last Venture] Reference
How the RM 1 billion demand was derived is still elusively unclear. From Wordnik.com. [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference
But also he advanced, though elusively, slipping to one side of those great paws. From Wordnik.com. [The Rich Little Poor Boy] Reference
There was something elusively familiar about his expression; she was sure she had seen him before. From Wordnik.com. [Jerry Junior] Reference
The whole subject is a network of riddles -- a network with solutions glimmering elusively through. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Man] Reference
When I read it I was sure it meant that Zerobama finds majorities, i.e. White people, elusively racist!. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference
Above all, she could be elusively lucid and make herself understood without any bluntness of statement. From Wordnik.com. [Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House] Reference
A cruel foreknowledge of disaster overshadowed her; something unusual, elusively sinister, haunted her. From Wordnik.com. [A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg] Reference
Not powerful enough breaking tackles in space to overwhelm even with his quickness and elusively, he may be a. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference
Freedom flickered so elusively close, with a joyous new wiggle of her toes, with the thrilling turning of her head. From Wordnik.com. [Toronto Sun] Reference
Then came a little valley overgrown with the pale purple bloom of thistles and elusively haunted with their perfume. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Road] Reference
His face, with its little black moustache and large dark eyes, was fine upon examination, but in some elusively foreign way. From Wordnik.com. [The Market-Place] Reference
The man's face was vaguely, elusively familiar; if the lieutenant had not seen him before, he had at least seen his picture. From Wordnik.com. [Jerry Junior] Reference
Dollar signs continue to dance elusively within the ring (or cage, as the case may be), so on Jan. 19 of this year, when Gov. From Wordnik.com. [AltWeeklies.com Site Feed] Reference
TORONTO -- Freedom flickered so elusively close, with a joyous new wiggle of her toes, with the thrilling turning of her head. From Wordnik.com. [Ottawa Sun] Reference
Even the most brilliant books have not succeeded in catching on the wing this airy chatter, which comes, goes, flies elusively. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
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