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 1 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 1 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 5 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.
12 But as in an hour, this river of dreams and wild romance has emerged to a reality scarcely less visionary and splendid.