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fanciful tale

noun as in cock-and-bull story

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A fanciful tale it was of how a gypsy princess had been cruelly treated by a wicked man like Anselo Spico.

But the century which elapsed between Godwin's fanciful tale and Brunt's fantastic romance felt the impact of the new science.

Such a scene cannot strike us as unnatural in a purely fanciful tale, when we have learned what could happen in real life.

Is it burglars, or are the flowers giving a ball, as in Andersen's fair, fanciful tale?

In this fanciful tale Plato has dropped, or almost dropped, the garb of mythology.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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