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This relation between the fiction that is, and that which is to be, and the common school is not fanciful. [4]

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You can make your own comment; I am fanciful, you know. [6]
This gentleman has written a volume of Essays, in which, among much that is dreamy and fanciful (if he will pardon me for saying so), there is much more that is true and manly, honest and bold. [6]
Henceforth she read with understanding the changes in his manner, and saw behind the mingled abstraction and fanciful meditation of his talk. [11]
But behold, they were not wild enough--they were not fanciful enough--they have not told half the story. [5]
The two thieves were dressed in the fanciful court costumes of the middle of the sixteenth century, while the Saviour was nude, with the exception of a cloth around the loins. [5]
We saw ancient tombs and temples of fanciful architecture carved out of the solid rock high up in the face of precipices above our heads, but we had neither time nor strength to climb up there and examine them. [5]
The pictures used to seem exaggerations--they seemed too weird and fanciful for reality. [5]
Nature, when left to her own freaks in the forest, is grotesque and fanciful to the verge of license, and beyond it. [6]
Hand in hand, thrice beatified, Lo we thread the rhythmic, fanciful, Mystical mazes! [10]
It struck him there was a dull fire in his heart a great deal like it; and he worked out a fanciful analogy with the coals, still alive, and the ashes creeping over them, and the dead clay and cinders. [8]
Unlike the old theology woven of myths and a fanciful philosophy of the decadent period of Greece, natural theology was founded on science itself, and scientists were among those who sought to develop it. [9]
What chiefly struck them was the larger number of dusky faces, and the fanciful garb of the Magians. [10]
Ultimately, to satisfy the public, the fanciful name has to be discarded for a common-sense one, a manifestly descriptive one. [5]
Others were so shaven in fanciful landscape garden patterns, as to mark their bodies with curving lines, which were bounded on one side by hair and on the other by the close plush left by the shears. [5]
Surely, he would say, this must be the fiction of some fanciful brain, the whim of some romancer, the trick of some playwright. [6]
Some of these painted walls reminded me somewhat of the tall van, plastered with fanciful bills and posters, that follows the bandwagon of a circus about a country village. [5]
If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for. [5]
This was the official beginning of Valmond's fanciful quest for empire. [11]
Across the front of the house, and up the spreading eaves and along the fanciful railings of the shallow porch, are elaborate carvings--wreaths, fruits, arabesques, verses from Scripture, names, dates, etc. [5]
De Morgan's interpretation of the cabalistic sentence, made up as you will find it, is about as ingenious a piece of fanciful exposition as you will be likely to meet with anywhere in any book, new or old. [6]
If this relation of nature and art is too subtle for comprehension, there is nothing fanciful in the influence of the characters in fiction upon social manners and morals. [4]
One part of me dwelt in a fanciful realm of his own weaving, and the other part was a commonplace and protesting inhabitant of a world of lessons, disappointments and discipline. [9]
They had but little clothing, but such as they had was fanciful in character and fantastic in its arrangement. [5]
The floors were laid in fanciful figures wrought in mosaics of many-colored marbles. [5]
Ah, Robert, I know you think me fanciful and foolish, as indeed I am; but you must bear with me. [11]
I think she is still living in a neighboring State, and I am sure she has never forgotten the fanciful name I gave her. [6]
One man who is a little too literal can spoil the talk of a whole tableful of men of esprit.--"Yes," you say, "but who wants to hear fanciful people's nonsense? [6]
It is inclosed in a sort of little temple of yellow and white stone, of fanciful design. [5]
The first two illustrate the ease with which numerous facts are accumulated to prove the most fanciful and senseless extravagances. [6]
The thought that I had misled a lady, whose age is not her only singularity, who looked to me for advice which should be not at all the fanciful product of the Garden of Gull, would give me great pain. [4]
It seemed to Honora, so fanciful this day, that its unwonted air of festival was unnatural. [9]
She laughed, shook her head, and said I was a very fanciful portrait painter; and the husband declared that, if I would stop at St. Filian, all the ladies in the place would crowd to have their portraits taken, --my pictures were so flattering. [4]
You felt that he had travelled ways you could never travel, that he had had dreams beyond you, that his fanciful spirit had had adventures you would give years of your dull life to know. [11]
The former town gets its name from a huge, squat pillar of rock, which stands up out of the water on the Missouri side of the river--a piece of nature's fanciful handiwork--and is one of the most picturesque features of the scenery of that region. [5]
Therefore, ignoring this fellow's brilliant fame, and ignoring the fanciful name he takes such pride in, we called him Ferguson, just as we had done with all other guides. [5]
Her legs and feet are bare, and so are her arms, except for her fanciful bunches of loose silver rings on her ankles and on her arms. [5]
It may be fanciful to suppose that in the national system Washington is the one nervous centre and New York the other. [4]
He had a fanciful if somewhat facetious way of calling them by feudal titles which made them grin. [9]
It was a fanciful expression; but, to my thinking, truer word was never said. [5]
The romancers always dress up the chamois-hunter in a fanciful and picturesque costume, whereas the best way to hunt this game is to do it without any costume at all. [5]
From the first day that he had gathered these peasants about him, had convinced, almost against their will, the wise men of the village, this fanciful exploit had been growing a deep reality to him. [11]
This is, of course, fanciful, for his antecedents were wholly unknown, but in his time he could hardly have been in any household where he would not have heard "Uncle Tom's Cabin" talked about. [4]
One of those clean-cut, fanciful chimneys--too pure and white for this world --with one side glowing in the sun and the other touched with a soft shadow, is an object that will charm one's gaze by the hour. [5]
I decline to believe this story, but I give it because it is worth something as a fanciful illustration of a fixed fact--namely, that the Kanaka horse-jockey is fertile in invention and elastic in conscience. [5]
At first, to be sure, his sister took no pleasure in these fanciful fables and tried to shake his belief and lead back his heart to the old gods. [10]
Its stocks started at shillings, and went by leaps and bounds to the most fanciful figures. [5]
You may laugh at me, and very likely think me foolishly fanciful to trouble myself about what is going on in a middling-class household like ours. [6]
She looked up at me and said: "A strange whim, to die in those fanciful rags. [11]
Once I laughed at all such fanciful things as these. [11]
When he wrote at all it was merely to set down some fanciful drolleries with no thought of publication. [5]
His present repose and decorum contrasted strangely with the fanciful display at his first introduction. [11]
But this is a fanciful view of the case, for it cannot be proved that English men have proportionally increased their stature. [4]
This is not a fanciful possibility. [4]

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