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
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
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.
The widest stretch of fancy would not have brought us together again.
From The Grey Cloak by Peirce, Thomas Mitchell
