creation of the brain

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The fog lifted; the green shore stood out again mistily, then more vividly, like a creation of the brain.

From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

This indeed happened, if she had any real existence and was not some mere creation of the brain of Madame Riennes, made visible by the working of laws whereof we have no knowledge.

From Love Eternal by Haggard, Henry Rider

It would evidently be an illusory peace, a mere creation of the brain.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII by Sparks, Jared

To me the Maid of Athens was almost an imaginary being, something fanciful, a creation of the brain, and not a corporeal substance, to have a little urchin of a boy.

From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by Stephens, John Lloyd