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 Thomas Preskett Prest
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 Constance Lindsay Skinner
And by a little stretch of fancy, it may be likened to the shrill hysterical laughter, sometimes heard from the insane.
From The Yellow Chief by Mayne Reid
Again, I bid you look upon this ravaged countenance, and say, if by any stretch of fancy you can persuade yourself it was once as comely as your own.
From The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth
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 Joseph Wild
