stretch of fancy
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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
