stretch of fancy
Example Sentences
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Yet, sir, let us by a stretch of fancy imagine ourselves in the place of Columbus, on the third day of August, 1492.
From A Strange Discovery by Dake, Charles Romyn
To have known him then, the wildest stretch of fancy would never have placed him on this puppet throne, surrounded by enemies, menaced by his adopted people, rudderless and ignorant of statecraft.
From The Puppet Crown by MacGrath, Harold
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.
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
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
