creature of the imagination
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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 Eddy, Arthur Jerome
"And why a creature of the imagination?" inquired M. Delevert.
From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 by Various
“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 Cooper, J. Fenimore
The sceptic will see in the spectre but the pangs of conscience taking a bodily form, but even if only the creature of the imagination, it was equally real to the sufferer.
From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)
It was the creature of the imagination, the offspring of the soul from its own conceptions, kindled only into life by an external object.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
