Fancies

Examples

• Evelyn was the only mirthful creature present: he sat on Clara's lap; and, making matter of glee from his own fancies, laughed aloud. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I sometimes have sick fancies, she went on, and I have a sick fancy that I want to see some play. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Her simple little fancies shrank away tremulously, as fairies in the story-books, before a superior bad angel. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You are desperate, full of fancies, and wilful; and you misunderstand. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I used to call the fire at home, her books, for she was always full of fancies--sometimes quite wise fancies, considering--when she sat looking at it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It seems, said Estella, very calmly, that there are sentiments, fancies,--I don't know how to call them,--which I am not able to comprehend. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Pleasant fancies to have, Jenny dear! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She's bad enough as it is, with her dreams and her methodee fancies, and her visions of cities with goulden gates and precious stones. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Sick people often have fancies inscrutable to ordinary attendants, and Caroline had one which even her tender nurse could not at first explain. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You know your castle wouldn't be perfect without, said blunt Jo, who had no tender fancies yet, and rather scorned romance, except in books. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I don't know--I have fears and fancies that I cannot account for. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They take refuge in an inner play of sentiment and fancies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Perhaps at my own fancies, my good friend. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• About the middle of that time I entertained fancies that something had happened to my friends at La Terrasse. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• You mustn't fret over your own fancies. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Or unless she fancies it's blood, said the woman. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Protestants are rarely superstitious; these morbid fancies will not beset _you? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He fancies he can play at billiards, said he. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It was nothing, now, that I had accustomed myself to think of her, when we were both mere children, as one who was far removed from my wild fancies. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• However, I had my own fancies as well as he. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• We'll bid Moore good-morning, and leave him to the happy fancies he seems disposed to indulge. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Among other whims and fancies which they taught her there, they put some nonsense into her head about always wearing white. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Yes, I said, and the exaggeration may be set down to you; for you made me utter my fancies. Plato. The Republic.
• But, dear Fanny, you must allow that you were not so absolutely unprepared to have the question asked as your cousin fancies. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• In our condition of life, we sometimes couple an intention with our--our fancies which renders them not altogether easy to throw off. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The next, 'The theory of the book is bad, full of morbid fancies, spiritualistic ideas, and unnatural characters. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I am not one who is prone to take violent fancies, and, consequently, my friendship is the more to be depended on. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• To quit crude schoolgirl fancies, and come to realities. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• There was abundant place for gentler fancies too, in her untutored mind. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But I have never been ill myself, so I am not much up to invalids' fancies. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

Edited by Bernice