creature of the imagination
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She argued to herself that one of the two persons was necessarily a creature of the imagination, and, deciding that the gentleman had no real existence, she sat down on the arm-chair.
From A Mummer's Tale by Roche, Charles E.
"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 by Cooper, James Fenimore
"But she is a mere creature of the imagination."
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison
"And why a creature of the imagination?" inquired M. Delevert.
From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 by Various
Matter is a creature of the imagination, and is a pure assumption.
From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by Cooke, George Willis
