Whether they were speaking of me or not I could not, of course, feel certain; but I rather fancied from the glances they cast in my direction that they were.
On reaching the galley I found that the door on the port side was closed; but on applying my ear to the chink I fancied I could detect, through the steady swish of the rain, the sounds of regular breathing, as of a slumbering man.
When he had come to know Daireen Gerald--and he fancied he had come to know her--he felt that he was no longer shut out from the world of love with his cold ideal.
I've fancied queer things when I've been drunk, as you well know.
Arthur Harwood had been analyzing his own heart every day since he had gazed out to the far still ocean from the mountain above Funchal with Daireen beside him, and now he fancied he knew every thought that was in his heart.
How could she ever have fanciedthat she loved her father before this man had taught her what it was to love?
I stood before the picture in silence for some time, and then I composed and repeated a sonnet which I fancied contained the missing expression of passion.
She fancied that she understood something of the system to be pursued with success amongst the burghers.
His week so full of bitterest suffering had not formed a dividing line between the two lives he fancied might be his.
Luther deceived himself if he fancied that Cromwell was ready to “work for the cause”; the latter remained as unfriendly to Lutheranism proper as the King himself.
Nevertheless he fancied he could save his theory by appealing to the clearness of the text and the assistance rendered by a knowledge of languages.
Köhler says of a number of such instances holds good here: “Luther fancied he recognised himself in the Middle Ages, that is why his historical judgment is so often false.
The fact that about this time he fancied he could descry Antichrist in the Pope reveals at once the wide gulf he was about to create between all ecclesiastical authority and Scripture privately interpreted.
They hadfancied that by a dead faith they could attain to everlasting life.
With the help of the theory of Ubiquity which affirmed the presence everywhere of the Body of Christ, he fancied he could extricate himself from certain difficulties raised by opponents of the Sacrament.
Pope perverts “the truth of God’s Word”; thanks to this the Wittenberg Professor fanciedhe could overthrow a Church which had fifteen centuries behind it.
I had notfancied that there was any such lovely site near the capital.
Our Southern brethren at present repudiate their debts; but we fancied they would keep their warlike promises.
It had always been charitably fancied that in South Carolina at least there was some remnant of more knightly honor, until a kind Providence sent Preston S.
Not a muscle moved, not a nerve quivered, but I fancied that a faint purple flush played for an instant under the white mask.
Since early morning the poor man had fancied that he was being whirled along in one of those magnificent dreams from which one fears lest he may awake suddenly with blinded eyes; but it seemed to him as if this dream would never end.
At that moment she fancied that she could see up yonder little Chebe's ragged person, and in the frame made by that poor window, her whole child life, her deplorable youth as a Parisian street arab, passed before her eyes.
She walked quickly, rather as one guilty of an escapade, again surprising her sisters, who fancied the liberty of a married princess illimitable.
The bloom that put to shame thefancied perfection of the rose departed from her cheek, the voice that welcomed him to a happy heart and home grew silent as the grave, and the young husband saw that something must be done soon.
The Vedas are a very ancient collection of sacred hymns addressed to the fancied gods of nature, and make no pretension to be in any sense a revelation.
There was a young gentleman, not like a prisoner either, only I fancied under some restraint; and I brought him a better stoup of wine than I brought the rest.
The marriage once over, he fancied himself safe--safe from all but the Buccaneer.
He had fancied that fear would compel Sir Willmott Burrell to press his suit; but the atrocious attempt upon his life assured him that there was nothing to expect from him but the blackest villany.
It pictured a fancied scene--one to which both Walter and the Buccaneer had long been strangers; and a lengthened and painful pause succeeded to the brief moment of forced merriment.
I have already said, that he hated the very shadow of affectation; nay, he sometimesfancied it where it did not exist.
Perhaps I fancied these ties more endearing than they really were; and because they were out of my reach, I foolishly neglected those that were not.
This produced a kind of irritation, more painful to endure than grief; I increased it by filling my brain with chimeras; I fancied Charles coming to St Germain, being told that I was dead, and being made miserable by my death.
I fancied them given up to the most ecstatic bliss, whilst I lay pining on my sickbed.
I approached timidly, for my heart had sickened at the sight of the tombs; and I fancied that I should now contemplate another victim of the cloister.
For one brief second Allen fanciedhis last hour on earth had come.
I fancied horse thievery was a thing only permitted in the wildest portions of the territories.
The boys fancied that their uncle might be a prisoner in that cave.
There, not fifty feet away, was Lilly, the faithful mare Allen had fancied was drowned in the Black Rock River.
It may have been our alarmed ears that fancied the paper boy played a different tune on his horn every day, but pigeons did certainly rise from the middle of paddocks contrary to the habits of these birds.
A hundred times would she straighten the pillows, if you fancied you would get extra comfort another way, and she ever had ready a hot glass of milk to make you sleep the better.
I could not see them clearly, but from the groupings of the figures I fancied that they represented the killing of Napoleon III's son by the Zulus in South Africa.
For a moment I fanciedthere would be a change in the atmosphere, now; but this idea was premature.
Leopoldo did nothing but sigh; he was nervous and tremulous, for the cold hand of death had come so near to him that he fancied he could feel its touch.
Leon cried--or fancied he cried, rushing upon him, and seizing him by the collar.
I fancied that I clung to it to save myself in that wretched leaky boat which seemed every moment to be sinking.
They walked up and down the Terrace, four abreast, and fancied themselves the owners of the place, and calculated the amount of good to the world produced indubitably by such a tenancy.
She fancied she could hear William finding fresh fault on the stairs.
He felt himself now, as he had often fancied other people, adrift on the stream, and far removed from control of it, a man with no grasp upon circumstances any longer.
Henry, too, gave her his hand, and fancied that she pressed it very slightly in parting as if she sent him a message.
Now, in the fair, innocent face and great, dark eyes of Eliot's wife, she fancied a resemblance to the little daughter that had been in Heaven so long.
He hadfancied he was winning his way to his girl-bride's heart.
It is not right that she, your wife, and my adopted child, should be slaving her young life away like this through some fancied duty.
He fancied that her voice sounded strange and faint, and his heart sunk heavily.
He was so near that I almost fancied I could hear him panting, and I held my own breath to listen.
I evenfancied I could hear the windows shake to the rhythm of their feet, but I could not make out from which part of the compass the sounds came.
Vanity and an amorous temperament had made him a conspirator, since he fancied he interested the ladies more in that capacity than any other.
The populace had learned the names of the French cannons, and fancied they could distinguish the several sounds of their thunder.
No doubt, the Jansenists, dupes of the philosophers, fancied themselves guides instead of blind instruments.
This aged lunatic, who fancied herself to be with child of a new Messiah, died in 1815.
When she finally held out her little hand to me it was warm, and I fancied that from it came a current that was comforting, though it may have been but the affectionate regard of some years of good friendship.
I fancied brigands belonged exclusively to Greece and Italy," says Dulce, still intent upon the wine-glass.
The fire is burning brightly; a little crushed glove lies upon the hearth-rug, showing how its owner but lately had knelt before the fire, or stood near it to gaze into its depths, and call upfancied faces from its coals.
He neither supposed that he was bound to know all things, nor that all things were bound to conform to what he had fancied or would have them to be.
If there is nobody but ourselves to come up to our idea of fancied perfection, we easily get tired of our idol.
I fancied so two or three times, Edgar, but I am by no means sure that it is not fancy.
It must have been some sort of meeting to discuss some fancied grievance.
The fact is, such was his general kindness, that each of these military officers, his passengers, fancied the Admiral was more civil to him than to any one else.
The men only laughed, as theyfancied the doctor must be cracked.
We stared with all our eyes when this unexpected information was first given us, and fancied our merry friends were quizzing us.
But she did not feel lonely, for the best of reasons--that she never fancied herself alone, but knew that she was not.
She was never the sort of woman he could have fancied himself falling in love with; he did in fact say to himself that she was only almost a lady-but at the word his heart rebuked him for a traitor to love and its holy laws.
How much time is wasted in what is called thought, but is merely care--an anxious idling over the fancied probabilities of result!
And he, believing himself always successful in throwing dust in her eyes, fancied that her wistful look, her occasional unresponsiveness to his caresses, proceeded from physical causes only, and would with them also pass away.
She fancied that he had an objection to any sort of display of either learning or accomplishment on a woman's part; she had gathered this impression from the way in which he spoke of his sister Lettice.
Different, indeed, but not as poor Milly fancied the difference.
But, although she did not utter any word of welcome, he fancied from her face that she was glad to see him; and it was not long before he found some pretext for strolling off with her to a shadowy and secluded portion of the grounds.
