He Deluded himself, however, with the hope that Smain, if he desired to exchange them for his own children, would have to seek for them a more salubrious place than the neighborhood of Fashoda.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
A great battle has been won without him, and he himself has been Deluded with the hope of a victory the fruit of which he would not care to enjoy.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
He had been wonderfully Deluded by his own self-deception.
"The Instant of Now"
Irving E. Cox, Jr.