Many of the survivors had been bred in luxury--their servants were gone, their powers of command vanished like unreal shadows: the poor even suffered various privations; and the idea of another winter like the last, brought affright to our minds.

Two candles burned in silver holders placed on an oak coffer, their flames casting glimmering, unreal shadows around the tapestry-clad room.

It felt as if he was watching the world through TV and the actions in the beyond were unreal shadows.

Basically, everything in Creation is shadow, ghostly and unreal ... while the future is infinitely vague, as is the past..." "Which means?

He fitted a pair of night-glasses to his forehead, slipped them down over his eyes, and instantly the street seemed bright, though with unreal shadows and tones, the chiarascuro sometimes reversed, sometimes not.

And then - But he stood, balancing himself in a world all harsh red light and unreal shadows, with his weight resting upon the appearance of vapour.

Above the mountains which lay beyond the further shore, the sky was murky with the smoke of unseen forest fires, and through this the afternoon sun broke feebly, throwing a vague radiance to earth, and unreal shadows.

Declaring that sunlight "is all we have to live by" and thus equating it with truth, Marlow calls moonlight "misleading and confusing" because it gives form to unreal shadows.

Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known.

The small, pale and unreal shadow disappeared into its nothingness before the life that, with its desires, now sprang into the plot on both feet and demanded its right.