stretch of fancy
Example Sentences
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Thus we need no stretch of fancy to see that what the prophet speaks of in the text will be accomplished in due time.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph
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.
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 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
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
