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
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.
But it would not involve a great stretch of fancy to suppose that in the black lady of Southam we have a survival of the performance.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney
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
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
