1956, A. B. Guthrie, These Thousand Hills, Mariner Books (1995), →ISBN, page 180,
Those were the eyes remembered, the eyes of Rising Moon, father of Little Runner, who had prayed for his son in a time realer than this one and had seen the prayer answered and gone on his way, friend out of enemy.
2007, Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 464,
With the future glowing so brightly it seems realer than the present, I put the page from Jane Eyre in the game bag as well, for safekeeping, and a spoon that is on the kitchen table.