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At first the name eluded him, and he set the pointer at the letter C and pushed the bar at the bottom experimentally.

Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009

The didactically stated importance of investing precious time and energy into constructing a synthetic conceptualization of a term eluded me.

Humanistic Nursing Josephine G. Paterson

As we approach the successful rebellion from Spain, a new cast of characters come in, including the elegant and refined Jean Lafitte - the gay pirate of New Orleans who time and again eluded Spanish authorities.

Gods, Gachupines and Gringos: A People's History of Mexico by Richard Grabman 2009

As we approach the successful rebellion from Spain, a new cast of characters come in, including the elegant and refined Jean Lafitte - the gay pirate of New Orleans who time and again eluded Spanish authorities.

Gods, Gachupines and Gringos: A People's History of Mexico by Richard Grabman 2009

I actually managed to get a good night's sleep, but that was Saturday into Sunday, and while I managed a nap on Sunday afternoon, sleep again eluded me at night.

Insomnia beats me like a snare drum in a speed metal band 2008

But, for years, one premiere title eluded Murdoch.

CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2007 2007

It was perhaps revealing that the word eluded me for so long.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

Since the meaning of some terms eluded early Tibetan tribal society, the translators could only turn to the etymology for devising terms.

Workshop for Tibetans Translating Dharma: Report 1995

She was familiar, but her name eluded him for the moment.

The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

Somehow he reached the succouring hand and clung to it like a drowning man, mumbling the while, "Sorry to intrude upon you, but one of your sons" -- again the name eluded him -- "has broken his arm, and he's in my aunt's cottage."

The Ffolliots of Redmarley 1898