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Sentences starting with fancy

Fancy yourself, that you have broken it, and that the pieces are lying at the bottom of the sea. [10]
Fancy this party the victim of political exile, banished by the law, and a more sorrowful march could not be imagined; but the voluntary hardship becomes pleasure, and it is undeniable that the spirits of the party rise as the difficulties increase. [4]
Fancy bothering about such trifles now! [2]
Fancy is not needed to give variety to the history of a Chinaman's sojourn in America. [5]
Fancy departs: no more invent; Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent. [6]
Fancy such a merry hullaballoo in America. [4]
Fancy being in love in such heat as this; what a hideous thought! [10]
Fancy what a library an editor's work would make, after twenty or thirty years' service. [5]
Fancy shook her kaleidoscope each moment as chance directed, and lo! [6]
Fancy what he had to go through! [2]

Sentences ending with fancy

Agne, Marcus, the young soldier--nay, even Gorgo, were loftier and nobler than she or her people, and she was conscious for the first time that the dangers from which Marcus had longed to protect her were not the offspring of his fancy. [10]
My father, who was my instructor, my companion, my dearest and best friend through all my later youth and my earlier manhood, died three years ago and left me my own master, with the means of living as might best please my fancy. [6]
I think there was music; but it is all dim now and blurred by the lapse of time, and this may be only a senile fancy. [5]
At this Caesar was enchanted; it was to him a further proof of his strange fancy. [10]
All this, so vividly described, seemed to gain a new witchery from his glowing fancy. [5]
Too fond of using the Devil's pitchfork for my fancy! [6]
How can you torture me and yourself like that, for a mere fancy? [2]
Even her diamonds--and the young man knew something about these gems--must be of considerable value; and yet she wore them carelessly, as it pleased her fancy. [6]
That's what'd do the work, I fancy. [11]
I admit that the story sounds melodramatic; but truth is more drama than comedy, I fancy. [11]

Short sentences using fancy

This may be only fancy. [4]
Had my fancy lied? [9]
That's the truth, I fancy. [11]
Agatha knows that, I fancy. [11]
Elsie was to his fancy. [6]
Our saddles took his fancy. [4]
The fancy diverted him. [11]
Or some one else's fancy? [11]
You're my fancy. [11]
Subject, Fancy. [6]

Sentences containing fancy two or more times

There was but one thing to do--to go away, to put this world of French Canada behind him, and leave her free to follow her fancy, or some one else's fancy. [11]

More example sentences with the word fancy in them

The fact--is, Margaret, you've got a sort of preserve up in Brandon, and you fancy that the world is divided into sheep and goats. [4]
Your mouths are your own, and you can blow off to suit your fancy, but if any one thinks I'm a tame coyote to be poked with a stick--! [11]
Everywhere you go you see square recesses cut into the hillsides, with perpendicular walls unmarred by crack or crevice, and perhaps you fancy that a house grew out of the ground there, and has been removed in a single piece from the mold. [5]
Whatever excursions the writer makes in fancy, we require fundamental consistency with human nature. [4]
A real reform would settle them once and for all, and wind up by giving us an alphabet that we wouldn't have to spell with at all, instead of this present silly alphabet, which I fancy was invented by a drunken thief. [5]
I hoped he would fancy it was the accumulation of a single week. [5]
And whereas he would by no means consent, the dispute was taken up by others present and Jorg Loffelholz devised the fancy of holding a Court of Love to decide the case. [10]
I fear it would be only self-delusion to fancy her better. [14]
I hope it won't be a literary one, with a fancy for running my department. [8]
He whose easily won heart and susceptible fancy had urged him from one commonplace love to another had been bound by the Queen with chains of indestructible and supernatural power. [10]
I should fancy with you as you are. [11]
Makar Alexeevich, frowning with exertion, held on to the pistol and screamed hoarsely, evidently with some heroic fancy in his head. [2]
Sketching the outlines with a few hasty strokes, he seized the brush, and while hurriedly guiding it and mixing the colors, he saw in fancy Costa standing before him, asking him to paint his portrait. [10]
Life turns the winch, and fancy or accident pulls out the stops. [6]
I fancy she will soon be removed from our path, and then. [10]
I fancy she will not like it as much as you did. [4]
Perhaps the new-comer will make love to her,--I should think it possible she might fancy him. [6]
I fancy she will have tried to reach the sea, and to get to Egypt or possibly to Alexandria; and there--you know what the Greek city is--she will fall into utter ruin. [10]
I fancy that will be hardly necessary. [11]
Think of her wild fancy as we may, she felt as if that dusky woman of her midnight vision on the river were breathing for one hour through her lips. [6]
It was she who brought imagination to bear on my pastimes, and many a time has she borne my fancy far enough from the Pegnitz, over seas and rivers to groves of palm and golden fairy lands. [10]
The statues, of which there were many, bore strange symbols, the mosaic flooring was covered with images intended to excite the fancy and the fears of the beholder. [10]
I fancy that when the right day came she confessed that the moment was when she first saw him enter their box at the opera. [4]
Am I mistaken when I fancy that it grieves you to be separated from me? [10]
You can fancy what universal joy the idea of a war with Egypt excited. [10]
And how fair were the visions that rose before her young fancy as she broke off one piece after another and hastily eat them after slightly moistening them with the fresh oil. [10]
The enemy's guns were in his fancy not guns but pipes from which occasional puffs were blown by an invisible smoker. [2]
The two men were drawn to each other; Irving greatly admired the "noble hearted, manly, spirited little fellow, with a mind as generous as his fancy is brilliant. [4]
I fancy the wedding, which robbed us all, was hardest for her, for it was in one sense a finality of her life. [4]
In fancy I was painting her still. [10]
And so there was no parting, for in his fancy I went with him; he knew not but I went with him, my hand in his--my young soft hand, not this withered claw. [5]
I fancy he was bound up in his son, though he quarrelled with him, and crossed him. [8]
This act of war in fancy, dress, with its two steps forward and one back, and the singing of a song, is one of the most fatal to the masculine peace of mind in the whole history of carnage. [4]
From her willowy walk a sophisticated observer would have hazarded the guess that her search for an occupation had included a course of lessons in fancy dancing. [9]
In fancy, the voluptuous votary of fashion sees herself amid the festive throng, 'the observed of all observers. [5]
Lily of the valley, growing in the shade now,--perhaps better there until her petals drop; and yet if she is all I often fancy she is, how her youthful presence would illuminate and sweeten a household! [6]
The most of us can learn to forgive, and even to like, a countenance that strikes us unpleasantly at first, but few of us, I fancy, become reconciled to a jarring name so easily. [5]
You take it up with the notion that you are going to acquire information about the whole country journeyed over, you are beguiled at times with the fancy that you are getting it. [4]
The face would turn towards me, and the momentary illusion would pass away, but still the fancy clung to me. [6]
There is a tradition (attributed to John Phenix [It has been purloined by fifty different scribblers who were too poor to invent a fancy but not ashamed to steal one.--M. [5]
On the ceiling, too, there was strange imagery; and when she looked at the floor to rest her bewildered fancy, her eyes fell on a troop of furies pursuing the wicked, or a pool of fire by which horrible monsters kept guard. [10]
I did wish Tom Sawyer was there; I knowed he would take an interest in this kind of business, and throw in the fancy touches. [5]
The old Doctor told them, that, if possible, they must indulge this fancy of hers. [6]
He had been told that it was to-morrow, and not to-day, that the hideous act would be accomplished; and it was a consolation to her to know that he was spared the agony of following her in fancy in her fearful progress. [10]
He wished first to test whether this new fancy would prove more lasting. [10]
If I were to tell some of my experience, you would recognize California blood in me; I fancy the old, old story would sound familiar, no doubt. [5]
Porphyrius has power to protect us, and you do not yet know what a fancy he has taken to us. [10]
She was dressed to please her own fancy, evidently, with small regard to the modes declared correct by the Rockland milliners and mantua-makers. [6]
But Richard said to her: "Mother, I fancy you don't quite grasp the position. [11]
It never occurred to her to fancy that the young lady had any personal dislike to her, for, though she might be ignored and forgotten, who had ever had any but a kind word for her. [10]
But it seemed to her that life must be dull in any of them, and with that idea in her head her dreaming fancy had drawn these pictures. [6]
I suppose this to have been a fancy of hers, or a kind of magnetic power she could give out;--at any rate, I cannot help thinking she wills her strength away from herself, for she has lost vigor and color from that day. [6]
He sent me to France for my education, where I was introduced at court by my kinsman, the old Marquis, who took a fancy to me and begged me to remain. [9]
If you're going to Fort O'Battle because you've set your fancy there, you'd better go back now. [11]
Why, he seems to fancy he is King of Lydia! [10]
Austen permitted himself to dwell, as he descended the mountain in the gathering darkness, upon the fancy of the springing of a generation of ideals from a generation of commerce which boded well for the Republic. [9]
I'll teach you to dress the men in fancy coats for a parade.... [2]
I fancy at times that I see something of that starry light which I noticed in the young man's eyes gradually kindling in hers. [6]
I fancy a thunder-storm must be coming on. [10]
A vision came through his fancy of himself as standing on a platform, and having persons who wished to look upon him and shake hands with him presented, as he had heard was the way with great people when going about the country. [6]
I might have thought it only a freak of my fancy, but there by the fireplace sat a stout, red-faced, puffy-looking man, in the ordinary dress of an English gentleman, whom I had no difficulty in recognizing as my uncle from India. [4]
The history of this great State, the renown of those great men who have stood here, and have spoken here, and have been heard here, all crowd around my fancy, and incline me to shrink from any attempt to address you. [7]
I have been thinking that I might be wanted elsewhere, and called when I did not think of it;--it was a fancy, perhaps,--but I can't keep it out of my mind this evening. [6]
Only listen how they are shouting and calling down by the harbor; I fancy I can hear the name of Euergetes. [10]
Every one of these caddice-worms has his special fancy as to what he will pick up and glue together, with a kind of natural cement he provides himself, to make his case out of. [6]
In this case there was room for doubt,--mainly as to whether Elsie would take a fancy to come or not. [6]
You fancy that there may be in heaven a place of glory for such as have never been overcome, and you would fain have seen Hermas among them. [10]
And what way there is to move him I know not; he has no wish, I fancy, but that you shall go to your fate. [11]
When I heard them--and saw the shiny trees--and the blue sky--and then a blaze of gold dropping down--I wondered--" She did not complete her fancy, but Venters imagined he understood her meaning. [13]
Quite consistent with their marital relations was the fact that Nancy should have taken a fancy to the place after Ham's interest had waned. [9]
But I know the rock from which it is best seen, and could fancy Margaret sitting there, with her face turned towards it and her hands folded in her lap, and Henderson sitting, half turned away from it, looking in her face. [4]
The murmur of the ripples came up from the strand as soothing and inviting as the song of the Nereids; and if a white crest of foam rose on a wave, she could fancy it was the arm of Thetis or Galatea. [10]
Do you know the prettiest fancy and the neatest that ever shot through Harte's brain? [5]
They look into the post-office and the fancy store. [4]
He had arranged the movement of the story to his fancy, but would it occur in all as he hoped? [11]
The poet links the most remote objects together by the slender filament of wit, the flowery chain of fancy, or the living, pulsating cord of imagination, always guided by his instinct for the beautiful. [6]
He feeds on the madder of his delusion all his days, and his very bones grow red with the glow of his foolish fancy. [6]
In my fancy the long, low swells of land, like those of some dreary sea, were for the moment the subsiding waves of the cataclysm that had rolled here and extinguished all life. [9]
I fancy it's the great ambition of their lives to be met. [8]
I wonder if the giver of these gifts will ever see them on the walls where they now hang; it pleases me to fancy that one day he may. [14]
I threw away the gem to gratify a mere fancy, a transient whim. [10]
Melissa rarely interrupted the garrulous old woman; but, while she listened, pleasant pictures of the future rose before her fancy. [10]
Their conversation interrupted the flow of my fancy somewhat, and annoyed me a little, too. [5]
Can you fancy the figure he cut?... [2]
But that was the feeble work, the nursery work, of a financial fancy that had had no teaching, no experience, no practice. [5]
Yet, after all, the fancy was not delirious,--the mind could follow it well enough; let him go on. [6]
Dear me, how the fancy product of that old harem still holds out! [5]
She has not the faculty of generalisation--I fancy that's the word to use. [11]
They fancy themselves the exclusive favorites of the gods, and by so doing incur the contempt of all wise men, and the hatred of the whole world. [10]
Pierre, looking through the doorway beside which he lay, drew in his breath sharply, for it seemed at first as if The Man was an unnatural fancy, and not a thing. [11]
I fancy, too, that yours is lighter than hers. [10]
The woman sees that there is nothing impertinent in our cursory inquiry into her domestic concerns, but, I fancy, knows that we are genial travelers, with human sympathies. [4]
Or was it that the singular change which had come over her had involved her passionate fancy for him and swept it away with her other habits of thought and feeling? [6]
And the idea that she, too, might prefer the sanction of the law, the gilded cage as a popular song which once had taken his fancy illuminatingly expressed it--seemed utterly incongruous with the freedom and daring of her spirit, was a sobering shock. [9]
I fancy, now, that Mr. Henderson tolerates the good--that is the reason we get on so well together; and Mr. Lyon tolerates the evil--that's the reason he likes New York. [4]
Most people fancy that if they had money enough they could do anything. [4]
They will see that I spoke falsely,--being ignorant, as they will fancy --and with the falling of the first shadow of that darkness you shall see them go mad with fear; and they will set you free and make you great! [5]
It was curious that his imagination would not rise, now, to a realization of that intercourse on which, at times, his fancy had dwelt with such vividness. [9]
Was it fancy that her husband's physical attributes had changed since he had attained his new position of dignity? [9]
Was it possible that he was going to take a fancy to her? [6]

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