stretch of fancy
Example Sentences
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He showed all the stretch of fancy at once; and if he has failed in some of his flights, it was but because he attempted everything.
From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander
Without much stretch of fancy it might be said that Kief, like Rome, Lisbon and some other cities, is built on seven hills.
From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther
It required but little stretch of fancy to picture them as so many cattle grazing on the edge of a common, and that the grove might shelter some lowly farm-house.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
Would it indeed be possible, by the widest stretch of fancy, to imagine a proceeding more senseless and ruinous than yours?'
From Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna by Velde, C. F. van der (Carl Franz)
It would have demanded but a slight stretch of fancy to picture him as his satin-coated great-grandfather grown to a dissipated maturity, as he stood there, the master spirit in this house of fallen greatness.
From The Gambler A Novel by Thurston, Katherine Cecil
