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A fancy came into my head that I would entertain the king and queen with an English tune upon this instrument.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFTThey ran side by side across the yard to a roofed flight of steps that led to the printing-office.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTMy one room,” replied that much injured gentleman, “was on the Coffee Room flight.
THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, V. 2(OF 2)CHARLES DICKENSShe fancied there was a sympathy of thought and taste between them, in which fancy she was mistaken.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINOne time my fancy soared on high, to see what discoveries I could make in those clearer regions.
THE LIFE AND MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, OF YORK, MARINER (1801)DANIEL DEFOEFancy that enormous shell dropping suddenly out of the blue on to a ship's deck swarming with troops!
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONBut the flight of the insurgents was too far advanced to rally them, and they retired south towards Pampanga.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANTo be sure, he hadn't seen Mrs. Robin go, but he had heard the beat of her wings as she began her flight.
THE TALE OF GRANDFATHER MOLEARTHUR SCOTT BAILEYHis attitude was one of hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging its flight away from him.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINYou never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYWORDS RELATED TO FLIGHT OF FANCY
- aggrandizement
- amplification
- baloney
- boasting
- caricature
- coloring
- crock
- elaboration
- embroidery
- emphasis
- enlargement
- exaltation
- excess
- extravagance
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fancy
- fantasy
- figure of speech
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- hogwash
- hyperbole
- inflation
- jazz
- line
- magnification
- misjudgment
- misrepresentation
- overemphasis
- overestimation
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- rant
- romance
- stretch
- tall story
- untruth
- whopper
- yarn
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.