fantasticality

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In this garden there are five pines,—not pines tormented into fantasticalities, but pines made wondrously picturesque by long and tireless care and judicious trimming.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Hearn, Lafcadio

On a chimney-piece of slate-blue marble were figures in old Dresden, shepherds in bridal garb, with delicate bouquets in their hands, German fantasticalities surrounding a platinum clock, inlaid with arabesques.

From A Daughter of Eve by Balzac, Honoré de

The improvement of the mere fashion, as compared with the fantasticalities of the Friendship’s Garland period, is simply enormous.

From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George

Sand's version of the story is that his companion's infidelity was a delusion of the fever itself, and that the charge was but the climax of a series of intolerable affronts and general fantasticalities.

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

The Song he sings is not of fantasticalities; it is of a thing felt, really there; the prime merit of this, as of all in him, and of his Life generally, is truth.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas