stretch of fancy

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To have known him then, the wildest stretch of fancy would never have placed him on this puppet throne, surrounded by enemies, menaced by his adopted people, rudderless and ignorant of statecraft.

From The Puppet Crown by MacGrath, Harold

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 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

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 Reid, Mayne

Then you don't think it is any stretch of fancy to have so clear an idea as I have of Milham Grange?

From Ruth by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn