Gulls and petrels darted and fluttered about us in every direction, porpoises were making swift and curving leaps, even a few whales added to the magic and apparent unreality of it all.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
We sank with chattering teeth to our cheerless beds and quivered with the ghostly unreality of this great vibrating unknown.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
But, to a boy of that age, the things that stood out were not, of necessity, the right things and any unreality that it might have had was due perhaps to his fastening on the incidental, fantastic things that a small child notices, always more vividly than a grown person.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole