stretch of fancy
Example Sentences
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It would have demanded but a slight stretch of fancy to picture him as his satin-coated great-grandfather grown to a dissipated maturity, as he stood there, the master spirit in this house of fallen greatness.
From The Gambler A Novel by Thurston, Katherine Cecil
It requires no stretch of fancy to imagine oneself by the side of a pretty mountain-stream in Wales or Ireland.
From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Without much stretch of fancy it might be said that Kief, like Rome, Lisbon and some other cities, is built on seven hills.
From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther
Indeed, it needed no very great stretch of fancy to detect in it other resemblances to humanity.
From Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Dickens, Charles
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
