stretch of fancy

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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 Prest, Thomas Preskett

To imagine John Massingbird becoming a hundred-thousand-pound man through his own industry, was a stretch of fancy marvellously comprehensive.

From Verner's Pride by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

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

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

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 Ainsworth, William Harrison