brain-born

Ideal more credible than the Actual: to enchain our hearts, to command our hopes, our regrets, our tears, for a mere brain-born

Burlesques 2006

Ideal more credible than the Actual: to enchain our hearts, to command our hopes, our regrets, our tears, for a mere brain-born

Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

Doubts are, many of them, brain-born and academical; and such, service helps to dispel.

A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

We may use such phrases as intellectual counters, but for no ordinary mind -- dominated by its physical brain and brain-born intellect -- can they have a living signification.

Death—and After? Annie Wood Besant 1890

All these wonders and magical effects which the chronicler has heaped up, or rather embalmed, in his recital, at the risk of rivaling the brain-born scenes of romancers; these splendors whereby night seemed vanquished and nature corrected, together with every delight and luxury combined for the satisfaction of all the senses, as well as the imagination, Fouquet did in real truth offer to his sovereign in that enchanting retreat of which no monarch could at that time boast of possessing an equal.

The Man in the Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836