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Sentences ending with fancies

Thousand 'stapes of wit Make thee the father of their idle dream, And rack thee in their fancies! [6]
Yet the practitioner who prescribes the nitrate of silver supposes he is guided by the solemn experience of the past, instead of by its idle fancies. [6]
And again stern thought fought his strange fancies. [13]
Sometimes I turned the lights low: this gave perspective, you see; and the imagination could play; always, the dim receding ranks of the dead inspired one with weird and fascinating fancies. [5]
But familiarity dispersed the gloom and the superstitious fancies. [4]
And her voice still went on, in a sort of running accompaniment to my airy or fiery fancies. [4]
He could not possibly walk down to Eleventh; he did not want to walk even to the Elevated station at Thirty-fourth; he stopped at the corner to wait for a surface-car, and fell again into his bitter fancies. [8]
It is not our beliefs that frighten us half so much as our fancies. [6]
I was off on my first long vacation for half a century, and had a right to my whims and fancies. [6]
She knew nothing of all these fables and fancies. [6]

Short sentences using fancies

Such were her fancies. [9]
Then I've queer fancies. [13]

Sentences containing fancies two or more times

But in their dream life they obeyed the invitations of their fancies, whatever they might be, and howsoever the fancies might change. [5]

More example sentences with the word fancies in them

Let me tell you one of my fancies, and then you will understand the strange sort of fascination she has for me. [6]
What extravagant fancies you and I have seriously entertained at one time or another! [6]
You are not yet out of college, and many such fancies happen there. [9]
History is strewn with the wreck of popular delusions, but always in place of them have come realizations more astonishing than the wildest fancies of the dreamers. [4]
She has wild whims and dangerous fancies, fills her hours of leisure with experiences--an artist is the Queen. [11]
The telescope through which he was fond of watching the heavenly bodies, and the movements of which had been the source of such odd fancies on my part, is now the property of a Western College. [6]
No one knew where he had gone, but his friends in Silliston believed he had been seized by one of his sudden, capricious fancies for wandering. [9]
Is there any trick that love and their own fancies do not play them? [6]
When his imagination tortured him with fancies that mice and beetles were leaping and running out of his pockets and the breast of his doublet, he thought that his end was drawing near. [10]
It brings people together in the easiest possible way, for ten minutes or an hour, just as their engagements or fancies may settle it. [6]
It is accustomed to this view of life, so much so that it fancies it never knew what war was, or what a battle was, until the novelists began to report them. [4]
Represent the matter to the high-priest in such a way that he shall think my brother wishes to gratify one of my fancies by demanding--absolutely demanding--the water-bearer on my behalf. [10]
How am I to renounce forever these vile fancies, so as peacefully to fulfill Thy will? [2]
The only way to kill it and all similar fancies, and to throw every quack nostrum into discredit, is to root out completely the suckers of the old rotten superstition that whatever is odious or noxious is likely to be good for disease. [6]
The American wants to be at the head of the procession (as he fancies he is), where he can hear the band play, and be the first to see the fireworks of the new era. [4]
Of late a thought had mingled with her fancies which had given to the river the aspect of something more than a friend and a companion. [6]
The security of the medical profession against this and all similar fancies is in the average constitution of the human mind with regard to the laws of evidence. [3]
But somehow all the mad fancies of my youth come back. [11]
The veneration and the affection which some of these men felt for the scenes they were speaking of, heated their fancies and biased their judgment; but the pleasant falsities they wrote were full of honest sincerity, at any rate. [5]
It looks like that, for the legends are built on so vast a scale that it does not seem reasonable that plodding priests would happen upon such colossal fancies when awake. [5]
It may be that was why rough men listened to his fancies about the Golden Pipes. [11]
He had a special study there, some distance from the house, where he loved to work out his fancies and put them into visible form. [5]
It was half-past six when I awoke and went to the window, relieved to find that the sun had scattered my morbid fancies with the darkness; and I speculated, as I dressed, whether the thing called conscience were not, after all, a matter of nerves. [9]
One morning, as she sat in that room, possessed by these whimsical though painful fancies, she picked up a newspaper and glanced through it, absently, until her eye fell by chance upon a name on the editorial page. [9]
I think his peculiar birthright gives him a certain confidence in his whims and fancies which but for that he would hardly feel. [6]
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. [7]
Pentaur stretched himself out on the humble couch, which to him seemed softer than the silken bed of a queen, but on which nevertheless he could not sleep, for the thoughts and fancies that filled his heart were too overpowering and bewildering. [10]
I jotted down on the sheet of blotting paper before me the thoughts and fancies which came into my head. [6]
As he rode on a hundred fancies passed through his brain, and they all had to do with killing or torturing. [11]
The liberal spendings of the Fosters upon their fancies began early in their prosperities, and grew in prodigality step by step with their advancing fortunes. [5]
I was full of strange fancies and wild superstitions. [6]
Aleck's fancies were not very capricious, and not frequent, but Sally's scattered a good deal. [5]
Why should they not have some of those wandering and joyous fancies which solace my hours? [4]
The world that never dines, and fancies it has a grievance justifying anarchy on that account, does not know how much misery it escapes. [4]
A poor, over-tasked, nervous creature,--we must not think too much of her fancies. [6]
You do not need to invent any picturesquenesses; whatever you want in that line he can furnish you; and they will not be fancies and doubtful, but realities and authentic. [5]
If any of my fancies should come true, Helen, there are two or three messages I want to leave with you. [6]
But a lad must have his fancies, and when your age I was hot for the exiled Prince. [9]
He was a most consummate actor, with this difference from other actors, that he was the first to know the thoughts and invent the fancies to which his voice and action gave the color of life. [5]
Dyck had seen many people, representing the gaiety and deviltry of life; but it was as though many doubtful people, many reckless ones, all those with purposes, fads, and fancies, were there. [11]
She knew not love, yet lived in maiden fancies, Walked simply clad, a queen of high romances, And talked strange tongues with angels in her trances. [6]
Long time he looked out upon the gulf, then his eyes drew into the bay and stayed there, seeing mechanically, as a hundred fancies went through his mind. [11]
And no one laughed at Hepnon, for you could not look into the dark warm eyes, dilating with his fancies, or see the transparent temper of his face, the look of the dreamer over all, without believing him, and reproving your own judgment. [11]
Rameri is a kid without horns, but who fancies he knows where they ought to grow. [10]
So I have kept to the outside of the portfolio as yet, and am disporting myself in reminiscences, and fancies, and vagaries, and parentheses. [6]
Nevertheless, quoth she, it was small marvel that such a heathen Turkish turmoil as we had been living in should beget monstrous fancies in a young maid's brain. [10]
It is not in mortal man to resolve the fancies of a woman, or interpret the shadowy inclinations, the timid revulsions, which move them--they cannot tell why, any more than we. [11]
He lost himself in fancies about her and her ideals, necessarily sordid, of her possibilities of suffering, of the triumphs and disappointments before her. [8]
And then, when I fell asleep in listening to these fancies, which she loved to paint in every detail, behold my dreams would be of Turks and heathen; and of bloody battles by land and sea. [10]
I think, though, I could tell by her way of dealing with us what her fancies were about us boarders. [6]
I confess that I am often pleased with fancies of his, and should be willing to adopt them as my own. [6]
Every day, every hour, of Myrtle's absence was not only a source of anxiety and a cause of useless searching but it gave room for inventive fancies to imagine evil. [6]
Professedly Celia was his critic, but really she was the necessary appreciator, for probably most writers would come to a standstill if there was no sympathetic soul to whom they could communicate, while they were fresh, the teeming fancies of their brains. [4]
When I remember him as he was ten years ago, I find it hard to believe that he is touched with these fancies. [9]
One fancies one hides one's self, and yet--you see! [11]
She could not help suspecting his errand, and she was very glad to have a chance to talk over her friend's schemes and fancies with him. [6]
By the time he reached Lake Marigold he had shaken off all those hovering fancies of the woods, which, after all, might only have been the whisperings of those friendly and far-seeing spirits who liked the lad as he journeyed through their lonely pleasure-grounds. [11]
Emerson, to whom he owed so much, may well have adopted some of those fancies which Thoreau entertained, and afterwards worked out in practice. [6]
Uncle Tom, after he had listened without comment that evening to her account of this conversation, was of the opinion that to take Honora to task for her fancies would be waste of breath; that they would right themselves as she grew up. [9]
The delirious fancies have left her, and since noon she has slept. [10]
I expected to gratify your curiosity, if you have become at all interested in these puzzles, doubts, fancies, whims, or whatever you choose to call them, of mine. [6]
Away up the gorge all diurnal fancies trooped into the wide liberties of endless luminous vistas of azure sunlit mountains beneath the shining azure heavens. [5]
If the old gentleman had these fancies, it was as well to humor him. [6]
What cared we for outward visions, when Agamemnon, Achilles, and a thousand other heroes of the great Past were marching in ghostly procession through our fancies? [5]
Only, and once for all, he must know the truth, know the worst, stifle all these insistent doubts and subtle hopes and jealous fancies, and kill the past by knowing truly what Bess had been to Oldring. [13]
I myself had few thoughts, fancies, emotions. [6]
Visions of his father, wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little Napoleon, and above all this the lofty sky, formed the chief subjects of his delirious fancies. [2]
Flattered by these fancies, she forgot every care as she walked faster and faster to and fro in her tent. [10]
Each has his fancies on the subject. [6]
After the morbid fancies of the preceding evening he felt sad and depressed. [10]
That is, the fancies for which those terms stand, disappeared. [5]
That is, the fancies for which those terms stand disappeared. [5]
So, between my fancies and anticipations, I had but a poor night of it, and came down tired to the breakfast-table. [6]
This was occupation enough, even if he had been the busiest man in the world-to watch over her, to read to her, to anticipate her fancies, to live with her in that dream of the future which made life seem almost ideal. [4]
People get over dozens of such fancies. [8]
In the strange crossing of uncertain chances, Somewhere, beneath some maiden's tear-dimmed glances May fall her little book of dreams and fancies. [6]
Now I see breaches in the old fortifications; the eyes of the uninitiated have been sharpened, and one tells the other what he fancies he has spied, though half-blinded, through the glowing rifts. [10]
So she now began to follow down the stream the airy shallop that held her bright fancies. [6]
I used to be very ambitious,--wasteful, extravagant, and luxurious in all my fancies. [6]
A woman must be miserable so long as she fancies herself strong, and imagines and feels that she needs no other support than her own firm will and determination, no other counsel than some wise doctrines which she accepts and adheres to. [10]
He is run away with by all sorts of fancies and superstitions. [3]
The man who avoids his kind and lives in solitude fancies he is doing some great thing and raising himself above the level of the existence he despises. [10]
They want an author's ideas on the subjects which interest them, the inquirers, from the gravest religious and moral questions to the most trivial matters of his habits and his whims and fancies. [6]
Such odd fancies are common enough in young persons in her nervous state. [6]
None are so anxious as those who watch and wait; at these times, mournful fancies came flocking on her mind, in crowds. [12]
She is quick-tempered, and she fancies she has reasons for not liking you. [11]
Was this instinct and knowledge working through the disordered fancies of fever? [11]
I haven't had an idea or a fancy for two days, now--an excellent time to write to friends who have plenty of ideas and fancies of their own, and so will prefer the offerings of the heart before those of the head. [5]
What did they amount to when they came home, strutting like peacocks, full of fads and fancies, and much too good to associate with decent, hard-working citizens? [9]
His hours were again vacant to his thick-coming fancies. [6]
I wouldn't think about these fancies of yours. [6]
Lord, how marvellous a thing it is, the grip his memory doth take upon his quaint and crazy fancies! [5]
When I make a statement which I cannot prove, it will be time enough for you to begin to offer hospitality to damaging fancies about me and my sanity. [5]
Then Nicholas sang a song he had just learned: At nighttime in the moon's fair glow How sweet, as fancies wander free, To feel that in this world there's one Who still is thinking but of thee! [2]
Myrtle fell into a revery, with certain tableaux glowing along its perspectives which poor little Susan Posey would have shivered to look upon, if they could have been transferred from the purple clouds of Myrtle's imagination to the pale silvery mists of Susan's pretty fancies. [6]
We French are a people of sentiments and ideas; we make idols of trifles, and we die for fancies. [11]
There may be a little sentiment now and then, but these papers are devoted chiefly to the opinions, prejudices, fancies, whims, of myself, The Dictator, and others of The Teacups who have talked or written for the general benefit of the company. [6]
It is such a curious collection of old and new books, such a mosaic of learning and fancies and follies, that a glance over it would interest the company. [6]
Man's mind is a clever machine, and can work up materials into ingenious fancies and ideas, but it can't create the material; none but the gods can do that. [5]

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