creature of the imagination
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The man who has been much about the world soon learns to understand that the really honest and "square" gambler is a creature of the imagination.
From The Young Engineers in Arizona Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
At present he appears to be the persecutor, and I the persecuted: is not this difference the mere creature of the imagination?
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin
Fear is entirely a creature of the imagination.
From Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Arthur Jerome Eddy
“What then would you have, mysterious being?” said Dunwoodie, hardly able to persuade himself that the form he saw was not a creature of the imagination.
From The Spy Condensed for use in schools by J. Fenimore Cooper
"What is this Republic? this creature of the imagination which you place above all else in the world?" she asked impetuously.
From Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution by William Sage
