Saturday morning it was "fancy starch," and odds and ends, and at three in the afternoon the week's work was done.
A black screen was drawn across his mirror of inner vision, and fancy lay in a darkened sick-room where entered no ray of light.
Martin Eden
It is true, I had not yet seen her, but my mesmeritic impulses induced me to
fancy as much.
Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief
But the notion of Ralph Nickleby having directed it to be done, tickled his
fancy so much, that he could not refrain from cracking all his ten fingers in succession: at which performance Mrs Nickleby was rather startled at first, but supposing it to be in some remote manner connected with the gout, did not remark upon.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
"The
fancy was one," he remarked coldly, "which I think you had better get rid of."
The Malefactor
But you mustn't fancy,' cried the gentleman, quite elated by coming so happily to his point.
When from thy boiling store, thou shalt fill each jar brim full by-and-by, dost thou think that thou wilt always kill outright the robber Fancy lurking within - or sometimes only maim him and distort him!
Hard Times
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore -- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the raven "Nevermore."
But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore -- What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore."
Poems
Then the ebony bird beguiling my sad
fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
Raven
At times her whimsical
fancy would intensify natural processes around her till they seemed a part of her own story.
Tess of the dUrbervilles A Pure Woman
Another fellow and myself did all the work from sorting and washing to ironing the white shirts, collars and cuffs, and the "
fancy starch" of the wives of the professors.
John Barleycorn
A young man, and a very nice one, has fallen in love with her, and she, I
fancy..."
Anna Karenina
And all this mixes with your most mystic mood; so that fact and
fancy, half-way meeting, interpenetrate, and form one seamless whole.
Moby Dick LXVIII CXXXIV
What I actually did was to write a good many copies of verse, in imitation, never owned, of Moore and Goldsmith, and some minor poets, whose work caught my
fancy, as I read it in the newspapers or put it into type.
My Literary Passions