stretch of fancy
Example Sentences
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It is no great stretch of fancy to suppose, that it is from his lips came the sound of terror and of woe that had disturbed the repose of that lonely spot.
From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Prest, Thomas Preskett
Again, I bid you look upon this ravaged countenance, and say, if by any stretch of fancy you can persuade yourself it was once as comely as your own.
From The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 An Historical Romance by Ainsworth, William Harrison
And Sir Robert could not by any stretch of fancy bring himself to believe that the town would willingly part with this privilege.
From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.
But it would not involve a great stretch of fancy to suppose that in the black lady of Southam we have a survival of the performance.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney
To imagine John Massingbird becoming a hundred-thousand-pound man through his own industry, was a stretch of fancy marvellously comprehensive.
From Verner's Pride by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
