creature of the imagination
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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
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.
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
"And why a creature of the imagination?" inquired M. Delevert.
From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 by Various
"But she is a mere creature of the imagination."
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison
