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Example sentences for "fancy that"

  • It is but forty-eight hours' sail to San Domingo, and I fancy that it is likely that he will have stopped there.

  • I fancy that it is as I expected," Frank said.

  • I have rather a fancy that we shan't do so, Hawkins.

  • I wish the wind would freshen; but I fancy that it is more likely to die away.

  • I have a friend on board one, and I fancy that she is cruising out here also.

  • But with a couple of brigades of British infantry, there can be no doubt what the result will be; and I fancy that, if we beat them in one big fight, it will be all up with Mahdism.

  • There is nothing before them but to find their way across the desert to Omdurman, and I fancy that few of them will get there alive.

  • However, I fancy that it will be the other way, if an English fleet comes here and there is trouble.

  • Here, again, I fancy that it was the sense of man triumphant over Nature that made snow-shoeing so attractive.

  • I fancy that is quite obvious," said Mr. Cunningham, gravely.

  • I fancy that he had taken steps to make that draught efficacious, and that he quite relied upon your being unconscious.

  • He said as much in our short interview, and I fancy that he meant it.

  • Therefore we have to test our motives and seek to refine our purest emotions, and the more scrupulously the purer they seem, lest we be yielding to the impulses of self while we fancy that we are being drawn by the magnetism of Christ.

  • So subtly may unbelief steal into the heart, even while we fancy that we are working in faith.

  • We fancy that we can extend ourselves more freely when the trees are so spectral, so transparent.

  • I have a fancy that it will sound a little gloomy.

  • Sometimes I fancy that it is only a great kindness of heart, an immense sympathy, a kind of protective sympathy, which has made her so good to me.

  • I fancy that I shall find myself in an atmosphere more conducive to the sort of work I want to do.

  • I had a fancy that we'd met, and quite lately, too.

  • To the majority of men I fancy that literature is very much the same that history is; and history is presented as a museum of antiquities and curiosities, classified, arranged, and labeled.

  • We fancy that it is the mission of woman in this generation to show the world that the tendency of woman to an intellectual life is not, as it used to be said it was, to untidy habits.

  • That little progress has been made is due to public indifference to a vital question and to the action of sentimentalists, who, in their philanthropic zeal; fancy that a radical reform can come without radical discipline.

  • A woman is wretched if she does not love her husband, but I fancy that a man gets on very well without any such feeling.

  • The first block accomplished, with an adequate rent accruing to me as the builder, I fancy that I should never try a second.

  • I found, even in that hour, that some ideas found their way through to me, and I began to fancy that even I could become a geologist at Montreal.

  • She is tempted to fancy that she is suddenly gifted with some power of vocal melody unknown to her before, and, filled with the glory of her own performance, shouts till the whole house rings.

  • I fancy that Louis' manner toward me, from this time onward, acquired a new respect, but I recognized the fact that there was danger greater than ever before under his increasing suaveness.

  • I fancy that he has telephoned to his niece.

  • He has always had a taste for adventure, and I fancy that he has friends who are interested in the place.

  • I fancy that no criminal could suffer more by hearing the sentence of death pronounced upon him.

  • I have become more and more acquainted with his poetical temperament, and I fancy that he too will understand mine.

  • But if the company of the noblest architecture can give honor, the Piazza San Marco merits its distinction, not in Venice only, but in the whole world; for I fancy that no other place in the world is set in such goodly bounds.

  • Indeed, I fancy that in the traits at which I loved most to look, the life of Venice is not so much changed as her fortunes; but at any rate I am content to remain true to what was fact one year ago.

  • I fancy that we shall march to Laval, and there halt for a day or two.

  • I fancy that we can show our heels to either of the gunboats.

  • I fancy that some of them are on the horizon, but too far away to be seen by us.

  • I fancy that we're hurried forward to make a link in a chain, or at least to stop a gap.

  • I fancy that we'll see Lannes before we do Carstairs and Wharton.

  • I fancy that a lot of water has flowed under the bridges of the Marne since I left you.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also wrote; applied especially; black marble; called forth; civil cases; complete list; fancy ball; fancy dress; fancy shapes; fancy that; fancy work; future existence; great chief; half century; itself the; laws against; look yonder; make contracts; medical college; moderate elevation; our ancestors; personal recollections; rebel force; showing that; what profit; white cravat