stretch of fancy
Example Sentences
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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
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 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
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 requires no stretch of fancy to imagine oneself by the side of a pretty mountain-stream in Wales or Ireland.
From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
