play of fancy
Example Sentences
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In the pianoforte Scherzos and in the Rondo Capriccioso in E major there is without doubt a vitality and a play of fancy easier to criticize than to create.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
Yet with this play of fancy there goes a respectable quantity of serious inquiry into the things of the real world.
From Children's Ways by Sully, James
She told it well, too, with a pretty play of fancy, and an understanding of a child's mind.
From A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Salmon, Balliol
And he, with joyous sport, took pleasure in furnishing her at every moment with new material for the bounding play of fancy.
From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
To the imaginative, it starts a train of thought—a play of fancy.
From Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town by Goolrick, John T.
