The excellencie, dilicatnes and perfection of this figment and woorkmanshippe cannot be suffientlie expressed.
He is visited by a sinister form, who proves that he is no figment of the imagination by leaving black and blue marks on his relative's wrist.
I assure you," Archie broke out, "this is all a figment of your imagination.
It was plain he gloried in the exercise of his trained faculties, in the clear sight which pierced at once into the joint of fact, in the rude, unvarnished gibes with which he demolished every figment of defence.
She was a figmentof my imagination," I answered, "but you put her out of business with a single punch.
The first thing I want to ask," said he, "is whether that old woman was a real person or a figment of your imagination?
How do you know it is a figment of your imagination?
We must bear in mind," he replied, "that the story is a figment of my own mind, and therefore easier to recall than a communication from another person.
No doubt, in declining the cardinalate, if indeed the offer were not a figment of his own brain, Laud would have been diplomatic enough not to allow his reasons to transpire, and probably the Pope never knew them.
It is a mere figment of the human imagination, a rhapsody of the transcendent unintelligible.
It is a mere figment of the human imagination, a rhapsody of the transcendently unintelligible.
For although she was only a false dream of mine, a mere recollection of the exciting and eventful day, a stray figment of my overtired and excited brain--a more than agreeable figment (what else could she be!
The novelist who offers us what he declares to be a figment of his own brain may be just as untrue as the reporter who sets forth a figment of his own brain which he declares to be a real occurrence.
It had been no vision, then, no figment of his tortured brain.
It was only a figment of fancy, a creation of his tortured brain, a phenomenon associated with his passing from life to death.
Following our conservation on the previous afternoon, he had vanished like a figment of a dream.
A repellent creature in many ways is Edvarda, and yet the author has managed to make us feel her through the perceptions of her lover, who sees--shall we say a figment of his imagination or the real Edvarda?
Every line of thefigment was alive to her, and she realized the tale.
Now Mr. Severne was sitting silent, but with restless eyes, meditating how he should get over that figmentof his about the sick friend.
The Egyptian form of the title, however, is 'a mere figment of the philological imagination.
Or, Seymour again doubted, had he merely constructed a figment of a scheme from his own imaginings and these attenuations of suggestion?
Her racking paroxysms of grief over this gruesome figment of a grave he was humiliated to hear, he was woeful to see.
But had his present work been forecast while he lay sunken in despair on the river steamer, he would have repudiated the prediction as a figment of the imagination.
As historical fact, that story about Adam and Eve eating an apple and thereby bringing down God's curse upon the whole innocent human race is but a figment of little minds, and an insult to divine intelligence.
Now, as the substance revealed by perfect knowledge cannot be affected by fruition which is nothing but the figment of false knowledge, it is impossible to assume even a shadow of fruition on Brahman's part.
For there is a difference between false knowledge and perfect knowledge, fruition being the figment of false knowledge while the unity (of the Self) is revealed by perfect knowledge.
There are other errors besides the figment of a primitive or original language which it is time to leave behind us.
But we must not conceive that this logical figment had ever a real existence, or is anything more than an effort of the mind to give unity to infinitely various phenomena.
Doubtless there may prove to be wrongs which demand righting, but the pretence of any plan for changing the essential principle of our self-governing system is a figment which its contrivers laugh over among themselves.
Nehemiah Yerby's scheme was incalculably favored by this circumstance, but he found it unexpectedly difficult to support the figment which he had propounded as to his intentions.
That voice belonged to no one on earth but Iris Wayne, yet that insubstantial grey shadow which seemed to speak was only another ghost, a figment of his overwrought brain.
