stretch of fancy
Example Sentences
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It is no great stretch of fancy to suppose, that it is from his lips came the sound of terror and of woe that had disturbed the repose of that lonely spot.
From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Prest, Thomas Preskett
Thus we need no stretch of fancy to see that what the prophet speaks of in the text will be accomplished in due time.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph
It would be too great a stretch of fancy to call it a democratic document, for it was not that, except in deft phrases.
From Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Skinner, Constance Lindsay
Yet who, by the wildest stretch of fancy, could have contemplated tight places or dangers as the trim yacht rode peacefully at anchor an eighth of a mile off our dock at smiling Miami?
From Wings of the Wind by Harris, Credo Fitch
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
