stretch of fancy
Example Sentences
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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
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
And Sir Robert could not by any stretch of fancy bring himself to believe that the town would willingly part with this privilege.
From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.
It is only by a stretch of fancy that fishes can be derived from worms, or higher vertebrates from fishes.
From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf
The widest stretch of fancy would not have brought us together again.
From The Grey Cloak by Peirce, Thomas Mitchell
