stretch of fancy
Example Sentences
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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
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 required little stretch of fancy to enter into the Arabs’ superstition.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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 Singleton, Esther
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
