stretch of fancy
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It is only by a stretch of fancy that fishes can be derived from worms, or higher vertebrates from fishes.
From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf
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.
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
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.
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)
