creature of the imagination
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To the sweetest disposition that ever graced a woman, was joined a sensibility, not the fictitious creature of the imagination, but the glowing offspring of a pure and affectionate soul.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy 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)
"But she is a mere creature of the imagination."
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison
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 Godwin, William
A Dobbin seemed to him to be such a one as might probably be met with in the world, whereas to his thinking a Ravenswood was simply a creature of the imagination.
From Thackeray by Trollope, Anthony
