stretch of fancy
Example Sentences
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The widest stretch of fancy would not have brought us together again.
From The Grey Cloak by Peirce, Thomas Mitchell
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
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
Then you don't think it is any stretch of fancy to have so clear an idea as I have of Milham Grange?
From Ruth by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
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
