stretch of fancy
Example Sentences
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The picture hung directly opposite the door, favoring me, as I entered, with a disconcerting smirk; it needed no great stretch of fancy to credit him with cherishing some secret and villainous joke.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 by Various
The widest stretch of fancy would not have brought us together again.
From The Grey Cloak by Peirce, Thomas Mitchell
It would be too great a stretch of fancy to call it a democratic document, for it was not that, except in deft phrases.
From Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Skinner, Constance Lindsay
It required little stretch of fancy to enter into the Arabs’ superstition.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Their lodgings were somewhat more spacious, but by no stretch of fancy could they be called luxurious.
From The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent by Knox, Thomas Wallace
