creature of the imagination
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Fear, as it exists in man, is a make-believe of sanity, a creature of the imagination, a state of insanity.
From Mastery of Self for Wealth Power Success by Frank C. (Frank Channing) Haddock
"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 James Fenimore Cooper
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 Charles E. Roche
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
“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
