To besiege these places in form was obviously a mere chimera.

But the truth was that it was not a mere chimera.

For a mere chimera, a fancy, a fear only half developed, he renounced you.

If retribution terminate with the grave, morality is a mere chimera, a bugbear of human invention.

Yes, that it is a mere chimera.

This danger is no mere chimera.

The form of government which is usually termed mixed has always appeared to me to be a mere chimera.

Embarrassment was a mere chimera.

A mere chimera, of which, if any thing be affirmed, the phantom, combined with so much pains, instantly vanishes.

As I groped out the door, and knocked at it hesitatingly, I felt that last idea to be a mere chimera.

An authority, they said, wholly absolute and uncontrollable is a mere chimera, and is nowhere to be found in any human institutions.

Indeed, steam navigation was universally regarded in America as a mere chimera, and Fulton and Livingston were ridiculed for their faith in it.

I was more than half persuaded all along that this fancy was a mere chimera, and yet it took such force in my mind.

He was even disposed to believe that Crabshaw's brain was disordered, and the whole account he had given no more than a mere chimera.

It is true, he had been in pursuit of a mere chimera, but it was the chimera of a splendid imagination, and a penetrating judgment.

These are mere chimeras, idle fancies that flit across my brain!