creature of the imagination
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“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
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
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
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 Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
"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 Sage, William
