The chimerical creatures populated the famous painting. From LearnThat.org.
His Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a chimerical terrestrial paradise. ,a chimerical plan. From Dictionary.com.
He interested his brother Etienne in these so-called chimerical projects. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
But Christianity throws aside all that as merely chimerical. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
Star-chambers, branding-irons, chimerical Kings and Surplices at. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
But away with dreams chimerical and projects vain, though clever!. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870] Reference
To one who knew those soldiers were chimerical acquiescence was maddening. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
With many, and to many, these things are but as dreams; they are chimerical. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
Taylor could see the chimerical eyes peering through the surface of the sphere. From Wordnik.com. [The Whispering Spheres] Reference
But if Dr. Carver was chimerical, he was at least courageous in his persistence. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
In no point of view could a more utterly chimerical or foolish scheme be well conceived. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Enterprises, which appear chimerical, often prove successful from that very circumstance. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885] Reference
He wrote that the idea of monarchy was chimerical, and that it should be discussed no more. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Bolivar, the Liberator] Reference
The leaden good sense of Louis XIV. pronounced Fénelon the "most chimerical" man in France. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
The man who had said this would have been regarded as the most chimerical mortal on earth. '. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
They insist on faith in their chimerical doctrines and systems, as 'the basis of all excellence.'. From Wordnik.com. [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference
Born in France, he had emigrated to this country, with the chimerical hope of speedily making a fortune. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
Railroad in the world, and under the then existing circumstances was so chimerical as to hardly warrant mention. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History] Reference
The handsome surplus, before alluded to, accruing annually to the London society shows that this is not chimerical. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
A new eyesore on a blighted landscape, it is an apt symbol of Gaza's vaunted rebirth, which looks ever more chimerical. From Wordnik.com. [Bankrolling The Peace] Reference
But he is so far removed from its realisation that his dream dazzles him, and urges him on to defend chimerical schemes. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
But the leading men of the republic considered his project as wild and chimerical, and shamefully treated him with neglect. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
But here, they would have people attend to their chimerical distinction between the king's civil and ecclesiastical authority. From Wordnik.com. [Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive] Reference
Consequently, it is chimerical to attempt to educate girls with boys, whose organization requires no such periodical intermittence. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
If the consequences, most unfairly attributed to the vote in the affirmative, were not chimerical, and worse, for they are deceptive. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
It is possible, however, with the aid of our knowledge of static electricity, to arrive at hypotheses of a more than chimerical nature. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884] Reference
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