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once upon a time is a little fanciful
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or am I being fanciful? I know I’m only on my own for a short time, that Dave will be back in a couple of days and, with a bit of luck, we might build something lasting
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A brook carved fanciful shapes into the rock, and he was admiring it from it’s mossy bank when he came to a thick plank spanning it
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There was a lot of ornamental detail on most houses, porch rails were fanciful twists of thick vine, with clumps of leaves, large maroon flowers and long string beans
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They rode that to the southern end of the Eastern Slope, then walked down Gense Spiral and reached a streetcar that ran out of the mountain thru the Eastern Breech and out onto a route where streetcar, cargo and foot traffic converged into a great avenue that leapt out of the mountain on a fanciful crystal bridge thirty five stories above the inner branch of the Imoneea river
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amused at the juxtaposition of profane, fanciful beasts
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What wasn't the glowing ceiling panel was a fanciful creation of living stalactite, the bedposts were columns of it
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The floor of the main room was furnished with comfortable fur standcushions and end tables topping fanciful stalagmites growing out of the floor
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But he trusted Penelope, and knew she was not one to concoct such fanciful tales
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Told me fanciful tales of having no money, no work and no prospects
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It's not a fanciful
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which he dismissed as fanciful
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Without it, Christianity is a chimera, a fanciful notion
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It might be culturally closer to Arizona, where much of the white population directs their still deep racism at Natives rather than invents fanciful stories of an Indian in the family as southerners do
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For the rest of the journey home she worked on a fanciful notion that the man was nothing more than a ghost and their meeting had been her first experience of a supernatural event
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(you) is also cast in a fanciful way
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There is nothing fanciful about it
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But he will never be fanciful and disorderly
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nor its desires and fears, nor are you the mind with its fanciful
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Nonetheless, a glance at its initial days as an English colony reveals perhaps a fanciful history in its development as a whole, but extraneous and outlandish on occasions
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Revolution, however, made things that had once been taken fanciful suddenly seem possible
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Who was this fanciful upstart who thought to tell them? Even though he was Jacob’s favorite, he had not yet earned their respect
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The mighty trees around them were decorated on the lower twenty meters of their trunks with white and gold flowers, and ribbons placed in fanciful designs, about four white ribbons to every gold one
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around on these fanciful streets and looked at all of the
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The mighty trees around them were decorated on the lower sixty feet of their trunks with white and gold flowers, and ribbons placed in fanciful designs, about four white ribbons to every gold one
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Horst had advanced to a new VW Beetle with a split oval rear window while Peter now owned a brand new bicycle which he had earned by producing in-store advertising for various stores and transforming plain bars into fanciful African kraals with secluded hideaways
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The ceilings were carved plaster and featured sea creatures from real to fanciful
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There is no singular aspect of a dream or its nature, but they can all be discerned if you begin to recollect them and use them, and exercise your mind so that they are seen as important, not something of fanciful whimsy which you'll have no interest in after 45 minutes of being awake and beginning to engage in your daily activities
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As fate would have it, Stallman's fanciful GNU
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From it the nocturnal itinerary of the colonel from the dawn he left Macondo at the head of twenty-one men on his way to a fanciful rebellion until he returned for the last time wrapped in a blanket stiff with blood could have been reconstructed
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After the accident when she received her gift of vision, the account had a different appeal to her senses as a result of her newly created perspective; no longer was the Grey Man the object of mere fanciful ghost stories intended to scare children and visitors
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spherical curvature since it’s infinite and could have nothing existing outside its fanciful
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said flatly as he handed Jed a fanciful quill pen
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Of course, Frank at first thought the tale fanciful at best, but the level of detail was astounding and he was prone to believe the strange little man with the haggard, staring eyes and his fervent avowals that something had happened
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Hitler’s somewhat fanciful scheme was to continue the war in the hope that Churchill’s grand, if somewhat fragile alliance, consisting of Great Britain, the USA, and the USSR, would ultimately collapse
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“You have a very fanciful imagination,” Higgins said with near contempt
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Such was the fanciful imagination of early
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And his fanciful spirits were growing more complex and powerful
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might be somebody’s toys?” Hillary rejected the fanciful explanation
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Alicia’s story about the sect was not entirely fanciful, however imaginative her general interest in the
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What a fanciful notion! Don’t all peoples have their own idiosyncrasies? And yet, all are prone to ridicule others for their peculiar beliefs
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This miraculous incident, more fantastic than the one at the Battle of Badr, would illustrate the Arab penchant for the fanciful ‘birds of war’, much before the Quran gave them authenticity with its scriptural sanction
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Just as easily as I’ve described in my fanciful ransom scenario, these people could dictate similar terms to a world held captive by their own awesome power to destroy it
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unbounded, all inclusive love for the other? The fanciful
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Later, they stop caring about people and what they say, and so they leave the practice of profitable work, as they are made to feel covetous of imaginary treasures and fanciful possessions through their desire (for example, they are told things such as: you don’t need to work, because Al’lah is the Provider)
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That smiling portrait of her in my head was probably fanciful thinking
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If I hadn’t lived it, I’d consider it a fanciful farce
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“You think we'll manage to get enough to invest in a ship?” said Johnny, having missed Mary's fanciful tone
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It was senseless, illogical, idiotic, fanciful
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Forget about the fanciful corrupt mathematics that proves nothing when the cosmos does not confirm
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The Mother Superior had added a footnote to say that Sister Rowenna’s claims were nothing short of evil; the crown of thorns could not possibly exist, especially in England; no further credence should be given to the wild and fanciful tales of a young and impressionable heretic and the matter was now closed – forever!
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My fanciful thoughts on space exploration (Chapter 13) were viewed as a very practical method of getting our population interested in NASA again
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Perhaps he was being fanciful again
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“We start with reality,” Brandor said, picking up on the boy’s fanciful ideas
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Thus, the entire writings of the New Testament would be fanciful and based on fiction
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There were many weird, ridiculous and fanciful spins written about Christ, such as Gnostism, written by many people, with many different agendas, with many different perspectives, who wanted to be a part of the Christ action, so to speak
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Statements such as these are unsubstantiated opinions without factual or rational evidence, which are based on nothing more than fanciful imagination, but indeed make for interesting reading
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heaven and the many fantasy beings and characters that supposedly inhabited that fanciful realm
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teaching! If false doctrines had not first brought forth this fanciful idea, this passage would not have been twisted to
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While the bestowal of a park upon a community will be universally approved as one of the best uses for surplus wealth, in embracing such additions to it as conservatories, or in advocating the building of memorial arches and works of adornment, it is probable that many will think I go too far, and consider these somewhat fanciful
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text written by a fanciful Christian “saint” who is just as hard to verify as the other false identities in
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They contain many fanciful stories and questionable doctrines that do not line up with the original Holy Scriptural fragments that we do still have
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He had spent many of his afternoons listening to her imaginative stories and then had told her many fanciful ones of his own making
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doctrines had not first brought forth this fanciful idea, this passage would not have been twisted to
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first brought forth this fanciful idea, this passage would not have been
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' The word 'when' is an adverb of time that tells when the action took place: in the days of Noah! The idea of the Son of God being off on a preaching junket for the three days and nights that His body was in the tomb is utterly foreign to any Bible teaching! If false doctrines had not first brought forth this fanciful idea, this passage would not have been twisted to support the error
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But perhaps this difference can be brought home a little more clearly if you will pardon a rather fanciful simile
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Thus (if the parallel be not too fanciful), as the first Adam by a tree brought death into the world and loss of Eden, so did the Divine Redeemer by 'bearing our sins in his own body to the tree ’ obtain the right to promise dying men, 'This day shall you be with me in Paradise
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At first this descent from the clouds of fanciful exaggeration of the loved one to the lesser status of everyday life seems more or less tragic, as both fear that the supreme quality of their marriage is vanishing
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In most cases there is no harm unless the patterns and connections are taken to be more than just fanciful products of imagination
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What am I to tell you? I have known Rodion for a year and a half; he is morose, gloomy, proud and haughty, and of late--and perhaps for a long time before--he has been suspicious and fanciful
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Basil said a word, nor Cicero had any knowledge; nor do the niceties of truth nor the observations of astrology come within the range of its fanciful vagaries; nor have geometrical measurements or refutations of the arguments used in rhetoric anything to do with it; nor does it mean to preach to anybody, mixing up things human and divine, a sort of motley in which no Christian understanding should dress itself
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At this Don Quixote heaved a deep sigh and said, "I cannot say positively whether my sweet enemy is pleased or not that the world should know I serve her; I can only say in answer to what has been so courteously asked of me, that her name is Dulcinea, her country El Toboso, a village of La Mancha, her rank must be at least that of a princess, since she is my queen and lady, and her beauty superhuman, since all the impossible and fanciful attributes of beauty which the poets apply to their ladies are verified in her; for her hairs are gold, her forehead Elysian fields, her eyebrows rainbows, her eyes suns, her cheeks roses, her lips coral, her teeth pearls, her neck alabaster, her bosom marble, her hands ivory, her fairness snow, and what modesty conceals from sight such, I think and imagine, as rational reflection can only extol, not compare
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"I thank thee for thy good intentions, friend Sancho," answered Don Quixote, "but I would have thee know that all these things I am doing are not in joke, but very much in earnest, for anything else would be a transgression of the ordinances of chivalry, which forbid us to tell any lie whatever under the penalties due to apostasy; and to do one thing instead of another is just the same as lying; so my knocks on the head must be real, solid, and valid, without anything sophisticated or fanciful about them, and it will be needful to leave me some lint to dress my wounds, since fortune has compelled us to do without the balsam we lost
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The idea of Edward's being a clergyman, and living in a small parsonage-house, diverted him beyond measure;--and when to that was added the fanciful imagery of Edward reading prayers in a white surplice, and publishing the banns of marriage between John Smith and Mary Brown, he could conceive nothing more ridiculous
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The simple observation that the comparison of two similar solids is effected by the comparison of the cubes of their sides, is the mathematical groundwork of this fanciful expression
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for just the three of us during office hours, of the disaster of a car Darryl owned up until last year, and of his fanciful clothing
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"This fanciful fellow claims the sea was given its name after the crossing of the Israelites, when the Pharaoh perished in those waves that came together again at Moses' command:
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As for mollusks, they consisted of exhibits I had already observed: turret snails, olive shells of the "tent olive" species with neatly intersecting lines and russet spots standing out sharply against a flesh–colored background, fanciful spider conchs that looked like petrified scorpions, transparent glass snails, argonauts, some highly edible cuttlefish, and certain species of squid that the naturalists of antiquity classified with the flying fish, which are used chiefly as bait for catching cod
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a breakfast of modern days love to contemplate through the vapor that escapes from their mouths, and ascends in long and fanciful wreaths to the ceiling
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We dived into the City, and came up in a crowded police-court, where a blood-relation (in the murderous sense) of the deceased, with the fanciful taste in brooches, was standing at the bar, uncomfortably chewing something; while my guardian had a woman under examination or cross-examination,—I don't know which,—and was striking her, and the bench, and everybody present, with awe
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"By no means, madame; the fanciful exists no longer in the East
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The drawing-rooms were decorated with the rarest pictures by the old masters, the boudoirs hung with draperies from China, of fanciful colors, fantastic design, and wonderful texture
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Once again he had the fanciful sensation that he could feel the rainwater flowing in torrents far beneath his feet
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Perhaps it was fanciful, but Godwyn imagined they were quarrelling about the same thing today
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Still, the presence of Monte Cristo at such an hour, his mysterious, fanciful, and extraordinary entrance into her room through the wall, might well seem impossibilities to her shattered reason
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By degrees the sun disappeared behind the western horizon; but as though to prove the truth of the fanciful ideas in heathen mythology, its indiscreet rays reappeared on the summit of every wave, as if the god of fire had just sunk upon the bosom of Amphitrite, who in vain endeavored to hide her lover beneath her azure mantle
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“I know it sounds fanciful, but he just sits and glares at me hatefully
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While they were talking, she began to feel that she was being watched, and she knew her feeling was not fanciful
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Out of the centre of the pond rose a fanciful erection clothed in more
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Guzman Bento, usually full of fanciful fears and brooding suspicions, had sudden accesses of unreasonable self-confidence when he perceived himself elevated on a pinnacle of power and safety beyond the reach of mere mortal plotters
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Could it indeed be possible that some nameless thing, some dreadful presence, was lurking down yonder? I should have been incapable of such feelings in the days of my strength, but one grows more nervous and fanciful when one's health is shaken
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In a word, instead of taking known events and deducing from them what has occurred, we must build up a fanciful explanation if it will only be consistent with known events
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"Lord John's observations are frequently exceedingly fanciful, and he is capable of attributing the most absurd reasons to the respect which is always shown by the most undeveloped races to dignity and character
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While it was not entirely fanciful that the bold Terence was some kind of distant cousin, 1861 was also the year that Pat’s father had first left home looking for better prospects
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“Well,” I said jokingly, “we could always call Allen Toussaint or Willie Mitchell,” thinking it was completely fanciful that either man would be interested in working with me