stretch of fancy
Example Sentences
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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 Harold MacGrath
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 C. F. van der (Carl Franz) Velde
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 Alexander Pope
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 Stanley J. Weyman
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 G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
