Noun, : He is far different from the chimera your fears have made of him.    From Dictionary.com. 

In a mere 18 hours they transformed a TVR chimaera (interesting choice since a chimaera is a mythological creature composed of parts of a number of animals) into the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust pictured above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autoblog] Reference

A chimaera is a chimaera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sophismata] Reference

"There are many chimaera that walk the Worlds In Between, m'lord," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [PGS4] Reference

They are subdesert mesite (Monias benschi) and long-tailed ground roller (Uratelornis chimaera).    From Wordnik.com.  [Madagascar spiny thickets] Reference

This anti-democratic entity, this chimaera, the bureaucratic regime of Euroland, has now come into being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Britain's Quisling party] Reference

According to researchers, this species of chimaera (or ratfish) is over a foot long and is related to sharks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: June 13, 2004 - June 19, 2004 Archives] Reference

It is, one might say, a necessary monster, not some ephemeral and casual creature like the chimaera or the catoblepas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Quote] Reference

The following species are near-endemic: Madagascar teal (Anas bernieri), Madagascar plover (Charadrius thoracicus), and long-tailed ground-roller (Uratelornis chimaera).    From Wordnik.com.  [Madagascar succulent woodlands] Reference

Gilder McCarroll: April chose “chimaera” because the mythical creature, combining traits of a lion, a goat, and a snake or dragon, is frequently used by game designers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Made in SA: Chimaeracon | Missions Unknown] Reference

Still the bridge was believed to be a mere fable, a chimaera.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Gnostic-Egyptian ring, with a gem on which were four animal heads in one, or a chimaera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs] Reference

So I am loth to admit that I have been at so much pains to fight a mere chimaera bombinans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of My Youth]

Was it not to be supposed that the madness of the pursuit of his political chimaera might change his character?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference

The incomprehensible apparatus is an otherworldly chimaera forged by alchemical arts unknown to modern science.    From Wordnik.com.  [techyum ::] Reference

English hypochondriacal chimaera, so for a different reason it has been with regard to Italy, and soon will be for Greece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference

This is similar to modern sharks, rays, and chimaera fish, whose brain growth slows as they age, even as the rest of their bodies expand.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Geographic News] Reference

Into the blue: gene duplication and loss underlie colour vision adaptations in a deep-sea chimaera, the elephant shark Callorhinchus milii.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The larger sort, often regarded as a chimaera, continues Radermacher, would perhaps long have remained so, had it not been for the exertions of the Resident at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature] Reference

That he has actually realized, in spirit and in effect, if not to the letter, the old chimaera of the philosopher's stone, no sane person is at liberty to doubt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference

We should take heed of looking on this as a Platonical chimaera; as a thing that can only have place in the imagination, or as a matter altogether impracticable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.] Reference

Aristotle, whilst he labours to refute the ideas of Plato, falls upon one himself: for his summum bonum is a chimaera; and there is no such thing as his felicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend] Reference

He was much disgusted with the many-headed chimaera, the monstrous republic, with which he found himself in such unceasing conflict, and was disposed to take a manful stand.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

The report is the result of a regional workshop to evaluate the status of the northeast Atlantic's shark, ray and chimaera species using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.    From Wordnik.com.  [YubaNet.com] Reference

"science" is a chimaera, or rather, an ideological construct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Only a Game] Reference

Choopie is left in an abandoned BEDLAM to fend for himself against the chimaera.    From Wordnik.com.  [What’s Perhappenin’: The Perhapanauts #5 Q&A With Todd Dezago] Reference

A fantastic unicorn, a chimaera-like creature conscious of the world through his two ears alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swann's Way] Reference

A chimaera or fancy that makes him happy, let him take heart and go on, with no fear of the desert which widens to his view.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Controversy] Reference

"Fool!" croaked Robespierre, "you are sacrificing yourself for some chimaera and the life you are saving is that of a very worthless and vicious individual.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trampling of the Lilies] Reference

Sifter3000 27th November 2009, 11: 46 arcticstoat 27th November 2009, 11: 50 video tells you pretty much all you need to know about Space Hulk. chimaera 27th November 2009, 11: 57.    From Wordnik.com.  [bit-tech.net Feed] Reference

˜Therefore a chimaera is™.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter of Spain] Reference

That Friendship is a pure chimaera.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monk] Reference

As it stands free speech is a chimaera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference

“Nothing and a chimaera are brothers.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sophismata] Reference

Matelote is a chimaera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

"Spontaneous generation is only a chimaera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02] Reference

Slim Tebourbi http: / / java-chimaera. blogspot.com / slimtbourbi (chez) gmail com.    From Wordnik.com.  [BarCamp] Reference