stretch of fancy
Example Sentences
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Would it indeed be possible, by the widest stretch of fancy, to imagine a proceeding more senseless and ruinous than yours?'
From Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna by Velde, C. F. van der (Carl Franz)
Yet, sir, let us by a stretch of fancy imagine ourselves in the place of Columbus, on the third day of August, 1492.
From A Strange Discovery by Dake, Charles Romyn
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
It is only by a stretch of fancy that fishes can be derived from worms, or higher vertebrates from fishes.
From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf
Indeed, it needed no very great stretch of fancy to detect in it other resemblances to humanity.
From Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Dickens, Charles
