stretch of fancy
Example Sentences
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The wildest stretch of fancy could hardly conceive that the Honourable David had been flirting with Amelia.
From An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Allen, Grant
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
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
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
Perhaps smoking harmonizes best with action; and it might, without much stretch of fancy, be shown that as the Prussian monarchy was founded on tobacco smoke, it flourished on snuff.
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.
