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chimera
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  • She describes his dream as a political chimera.
    chimera = something imagined, but not possible
  • The Chimera charged, its lion teeth gnashing.  (source)
    Chimera = Greek mythology: a fire-breathing monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail
  • Jim slipped his hand through the leather mouth and hefted forth a metal shaft clustered with chimeras, Chinese dragons all fang, eyeball and moss-green armour, all cross and crescent; every symbol around the world that made men safe, or seemed to, clung there, greaving the boys' hands with odd weight and meaning.  (source)
    chimeras = imagined things that are not possible in the real world
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  • St. Clair once told me that what most people think of when they hear the word "gargoyle" is really a chimera.  (source)
    chimera = an imaginary animal made up of parts of other animals
  • Tony's form became chimerical, indistinct.†  (source)
  • I think it is where his wildness went, for every tale was filled with outlandish creatures: griffins and leviathans and chimeras who came to feed from his hands, whom he led on adventures or else bested with clever stratagems.†  (source)
    chimeras = imagined things that are not possible in the real world
  • The Chimaera, the ones I watched being loaded into the rocket—did they make it to Earth after all?†  (source)
  • I am almost ashamed to own--that the terror and horror with which the animal inspired me, had been heightened by one of the merest chimaeras it would be possible to conceive.  (source)
  • Outside Victor's, the drab little café where my gonads had been so chimerically agitated by Leslie Lapidus and her hollow lewdness, I paused, went on, then returned; with its reminder of defeat it seemed as good a place as any to let myself drown.†  (source)
  • I felt satisfaction because such a geology confirmed that I was right, that this island was a chimera, a play of the mind.†  (source)
  • The new house was almost finished when Ursula drew him out of his chimerical world in order to inform him that she had an order to paint the front blue and not white as they had wanted.†  (source)
  • For obligations were palpable, soundly rooted in reciprocal deeds; possibilities on the other hand were chimeras, flimsy and worthless, dangerous even.†  (source)
  • He kept saying nobody in their right mind would rather study Knarls than Chimaeras — oh, I don't think he's got a Chimaera,' she added at the appalled look on Harry and Ron's faces, 'but that's not for lack of trying, from what he said about how hard it is to get eggs.†  (source)
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