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
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
Yet who, by the wildest stretch of fancy, could have contemplated tight places or dangers as the trim yacht rode peacefully at anchor an eighth of a mile off our dock at smiling Miami?
From Wings of the Wind by Harris, Credo Fitch
Indeed, it needed no very great stretch of fancy to detect in it other resemblances to humanity.
From Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Dickens, Charles
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
