creature of the imagination
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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)
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 Condensed for use in schools by Cooper, J. Fenimore
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
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 Haddock, Frank C. (Frank Channing)
