stretch of fancy
Example Sentences
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It required but little stretch of fancy to picture them as so many cattle grazing on the edge of a common, and that the grove might shelter some lowly farm-house.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
The wildest stretch of fancy could hardly conceive that the Honourable David had been flirting with Amelia.
From An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Grant Allen
Without much stretch of fancy it might be said that Kief, like Rome, Lisbon and some other cities, is built on seven hills.
From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton
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
Perhaps smoking harmonizes best with action; and it might, without much stretch of fancy, be shown that as the Prussian monarchy was founded on tobacco smoke, it flourished on snuff.
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings
