A world of strange fancies came over us as we mused on England's poets.
Dark and varied fancies crowd confusedly on Madame Montford's mind at this moment.
She trembles from head to foot; fancies mingled with joys and fears crowd rapidly upon her thoughts.
She fancies all sorts of things--shame, disgrace, and ruin!
He had not been back to the house since he had left her to return to the theater the night before, and the most dreadful fancies continually darted through her mind.
These strange and dreadful fancies about--about my sister," she answered, flushing slightly.
I hope and trust, darling, that you will not allow any weak and morbid fancies regarding Sydney to sadden and depress you," continued Captain Ernscliffe.
His instrumental writing is surprising; and, when one compares his Fancies with those by Orlando Gibbons, one is astonished at the novelty of his ideas.
In his Fanciesfor Strings he displays a very fertile imagination.
There are various Anthems and Fancies in five and six parts in MS.
They are undoubtedly somewhat dull when placed by the side of Fancies by Byrd and others.
This is the third of these interesting Fancies which I have had the opportunity of recovering from oblivion.
She cherished such fancies of her, that one morning, when she believed her absent from the house, she stole into the corridor upon which Clorinda's apartment opened.
He had never been like this, a shy frightened dreaming child taken up with fancies and finding omens and stories in the piping of a fowl.
It was the first of those heart-wrung fancies that went to the making of the volume that lies before me as I write--the familiar lament for the lost "Maid of the Moor" that shepherds still are singing on his native hills.
He goes about with notions swishing round inside that head of his, as much the plaything of nature as the reed that whistles in the wind at the riverside and fancies itself a songster.
Young Fashion fancies by Misses forward Behaviour, she would have a whole Kennel of Beaux after her at London.
I suppose the Relapser Fancies the calling her Miss Hoyden is enough to justifie her Ill Manners.
But then why did he let these crude Fancies pass uncorrected in his Friend?
A golden mist that subtle fancies weave, An unknown star that wise men never see, An idle dream of things that may not be.
Strange dreams in this calm hour her fancies weave, So quaint and odd, they seem but shadowy rays, Caught from the sunset's deep, mysterious haze.
I prefer even the fancies and prejudices of the people who see life from the inside to the clearest demonstrations of the people who see life from the outside.
All those blind fancies of boyhood which in the fourth chapter I have tried in vain to trace on the darkness, became suddenly transparent and sane.
It was Marshall of course who undertook the task of furnishing, and he lavished on the rooms the fancies of an imagination that suggested the collaboration of a courtesan of high degree and a fifth-rate artist.
To Theocritus the shadowy and iridescent fanciesof modern poetry would have been unintelligible.
Instead of loves, the couch of Adonais is surrounded by the thoughts andfancies of which he was the parent; and, instead of gods and goddesses, the power of nature is invoked to weep for him and take him to herself.
But these fancies of Greek infancy formed no integral part of artistic mythology; instead of being multiplied, they were gradually winnowed out, and the poets laid but little stress upon them.
Such fancies are accepted among duelling men as the real sentiments that move and govern society.
Being a great deal alone, in the strange place, fancies possessed her, people took on strange shapes.
Loose conceits, fancies of the private judgment, were excusable enough in the Elizabethan poets.
From a very child I loved all fancies marvellous and wild; I turned from truth, to listen to the lore Of many an old and fabling troubadour.
Yet many a look back on thy hills I cast, And many a softened image of the past Sadly combine, and bid remembrance keep, To soothe me with fair scenes, and fancies rude, When I pursue my path in solitude.
Charnay fancies that the palaces were built by a people that afterwards migrated southward.
Continual, ubiquitous and at the top of his bent, one fancies his effort must have been,--though he makes no noise on the subject.
I was still struggling with these fancies when the door opened, and George came in.
On the contrary, there is a lamentable contradiction between facts as they were and the fancies you have made her indulge in.
They've deceived the whole world with fancies and mad dreams.
She was often puzzled to determine whether the Marquise was entirely serious, or only amusing herself with wild fancies when she touched on pondrous questions with gay mockery.
The little episode, slight as it was, broke in on the unpleasant fancies of Judithe, and substituted a new element.
He had had time for many more such boyish fancies since those days, and back of them all was the home sweetheart she heard spoken of so often--Gertrude Loring.
The Judge smiled, indulgently, willing to humor the fancies of foreigners, who were not supposed to understand American institutions.
Yes, it is true; the girlish fancies appear ridiculous in so short a time.
No other charge is laid to him in this trial but that of having indulged certain heretical notions, which any other tribunal but that of the Inquisition would have looked upon as the delirious fancies of a fanatical old man.
The whole creation in these rabbinical fancies is strangely gigantic and vast.
And having said thus much to encounter with the prejudicate fancies of some and the wayward opinions of others, I come to the story.
My boy had a vision of her hanging from it; but this was probably one of those grisly fancies that were always haunting him, and no fact at all.
Now at the time at which these prophetic fancies were conjured up we had just completed an expedition which it seemed might be worthy of attention, solely on the ground of its very contradictoriness.
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