play of fancy
Example Sentences
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In this way, there were few subjects on which he could not speak fairly,—a faculty to which considerable fluency and an easy play of fancy lent great assistance.
From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
The best place for absurdity is in the midst of what is already absurd � then we have the play of fancy without the sense of ineptitude.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George
If there was no play of fancy, there was no forgetfulness of facts.
From James Madison by Gay, Sydney Howard
Captain Roy sometimes sails his son’s vessels, and sometimes looks after the secular education of the Sunday-school children—the said education being conducted on the principle of unlimited story-telling with illimitable play of fancy.
From Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
But Swedenborg's firm belief that the fancies engendered in his mind were scientific realities is very different from the conscious play of fancy in the passage just quoted.
From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)
