1 There was something fearful in the reality of it.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 29. I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN 2 I never saw, in any painting or reality, horror and compassion so impressively blended.
3 At present we know nothing of them, and are not in a situation to judge how much reality there may be in them.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS 4 The very years she spoke of, were realities now, for my correction; and would have been, one day, a little later perhaps, though we had parted in our earliest folly.
5 At length, I lost that feeble hold upon reality, and was engaged with two dear friends, but who they were I don't know, at the siege of some town in a roar of cannonading.
6 Mr. Micawber's enjoyment of his epistolary powers, in describing this unfortunate state of things, really seemed to outweigh any pain or anxiety that the reality could have caused him.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION 7 He was so much worse in reality than in my distempered fancy, that afterwards I was attracted to him in very repulsion, and could not help wandering in and out every half-hour or so, and taking another look at him.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS 8 I had thought, much and often, of my Dora's shadowing out to me what might have happened, in those years that were destined not to try us; I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
9 His honest face, as he looked at me with a serio-comic shake of his head, impresses me more in the remembrance than it did in the reality, for I was by this time in a state of such excessive trepidation and wandering of mind, as to be quite unable to fix my attention on anything.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS