Clearly, Dodie was the only one present afflicted by absurd fancifulness. From Wordnik.com. [Murder to Go]
If those two guys were little homages to fancifulness, then the Creation Museum is a cathedral to it. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast Links: Peter Pan, Facebook & Creationism : #comments] Reference
Most of her suggestions are tinged with the utopian fancifulness characteristic of the bourgeois theorist. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference
Holm was indeed entertaining and his lady laughed with the spontaneity of youth at the fancifulness of his remarks. From Wordnik.com. [The Road Leads On] Reference
It might be hastily assumed by a reader bent on critical consideration, that the subject of my essay had a certain levity or fancifulness about it. From Wordnik.com. [Cambridge Essays on Education] Reference
Burne-Jones was markedly Celtic in his love of beautiful pattern, in the ghostly refinement of his figures, in the elaborate fancifulness of his imagery. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
The fancifulness of the comparison made him smile. From Wordnik.com. [The End of the Tether] Reference
But the point is that Maltby's fancifulness went far and well. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Men] Reference
He tried to laugh at his fancifulness, but did not quite succeed. From Wordnik.com. [What's Mine's Mine — Complete] Reference
Its fancifulness is at times too clunky, its pathos too strained. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
The fancifulness consists chiefly in a superficial notion of evil. From Wordnik.com. [Amiel's Journal] Reference
It was one of her first practical lessons in the fancifulness of her shyness. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Guardians or, Home in This World] Reference
His poetry usually has the qualities of lightness, airiness, and fancifulness. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Literature] Reference
But his inveterate fancifulness led him to add: 'And that may bridge a cataract.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
My fancifulness he commended as something to be turned to use in writing stories. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
He cursed himself for the fancifulness that had prevented his inquiring her address. From Wordnik.com. [The Fawn Gloves] Reference
He hesitated and laughed because he was embarrassed at the fancifulness of his own thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Traitor's Purse]
Bunyan's fancifulness, however, gives us pleasure quite apart from such quaint effects as this. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Letters] Reference
The event acquitted her of all the fancifulness, and all the selfishness of imaginary complaints. From Wordnik.com. [Emma] Reference
Or so, at least, Lady Locke thought with a pleasant fancifulness that she kept entirely to herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Carnation] Reference
There was a certain amount of fancifulness and emphasis in his speech, but they understood him very well. From Wordnik.com. [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03] Reference
She seemed to me (I plead guilty to fancifulness) like a tall, speaking monument, composed of diamonds and pearls. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference
Addison's paper doubtless possessed an element of fact and truth, enriched by the fancifulness peculiar to the writer. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference
She tried to smile a little as though at her own childish fancifulness but suddenly a heavy shining tear fell on her hand. From Wordnik.com. [Robin] Reference
So there is no fancifulness in interpreting the incense of the ancient ritual as meaning simply the prayers of devout hearts. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference
There was formerly a melancholy fancifulness in the arrangement of these rustic offerings, that had something in it truly poetical. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
The picturesque situation of the village and the fancifulness of its rustic fetes would often attract the notice of casual visitors. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
The kind of love-making which was popular may be compared without much fancifulness to the favourite card-game of the period, quadrille. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
Given the malleability of the concept and the fancifulness of the numbers, politicians 'faith in Mr. Obama's green snake oil is touching. From Wordnik.com. [Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.] Reference
To sympathize with each, fervently and impartially, without fear and without fancifulness, is no doubtful step in the higher education of the soul. From Wordnik.com. [Notes: Book Fourth. Palgrave, Francis T] Reference
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