stretch of fancy
Example Sentences
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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
Their lodgings were somewhat more spacious, but by no stretch of fancy could they be called luxurious.
From The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent by Knox, Thomas Wallace
It would have demanded but a slight stretch of fancy to picture him as his satin-coated great-grandfather grown to a dissipated maturity, as he stood there, the master spirit in this house of fallen greatness.
From The Gambler A Novel by Thurston, Katherine Cecil
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
