1 I made that wild escape into something visionary, and have slowly found out how wild it was.
2 It was in vain that he attempted to dazzle her with the prospect of a visionary throne.
3 Yet in some curious way it was a visionary experience: it had hit her in the middle of the body.
4 The wallowing in private emotion, the utter abasement of his manly self, seemed to lend him a second nature, cold, almost visionary, business-clever.
5 Excess of unhappiness had, as we have remarked, made him in some sort a visionary.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 6 There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in Dante.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 7 The lack of sleep and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of a visionary.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—EXPLANATION 8 Her sight was disturbed, so that she saw objects multiplied, and grasped at visionary teacups and wineglasses instead of the realities; her hearing was greatly impaired; her memory also; and her speech was unintelligible.
9 So powerful were these visionary considerations in my boyish mind, that I seem, according to my present way of thinking, to have left school without natural regret.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY 10 My good friend," said Valentine, "I should take you for a visionary, and should tremble for your reason, if I were always to hear you talk in a strain similar to this.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 57. In the Lucerne Patch. 11 But, however, I shall so far do justice to this part of the Academy, as to acknowledge that all of them were not so visionary.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 3: CHAPTER VI. 12 But as in an hour, this river of dreams and wild romance has emerged to a reality scarcely less visionary and splendid.