How To Use Fancied In A Sentence
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I fancied up the dress with some pearls.
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Everybody shouts it, mule-driver, "coachee," or cattle-driver; and even I, a passenger, fancied I could do it to disagreeable perfection after a time.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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Nobody fancied taking the stuff the next week.
Notorious: The Maddest and Baddest Sportsmen on the Planet
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In 1988 I was fortunate enough to be at Wembley to watch unfancied Wimbledon's notable FA Cup Final victory against Liverpool.
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That will have blown away the cobwebs and he is strongly fancied to regain winning brackets.
The Sun
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I've always enjoyed snorkelling and I fancied scuba diving, so I was keen to have a go.
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Other trainers may have more fancied runners but I can sit back and enjoy it.
The Sun
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Next day, confidence shot, four less fancied runners all won.
Times, Sunday Times
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I missed him like mad and even though I fancied Paul now, I'll always love James.
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The young girls were all fancied up for the party
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Ghana was much fancied, thanks to its resources and its political and economic stability.
Times, Sunday Times
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An unfancied, mid-table side with little ambition to rise any further should not be quite as easy as this to step over.
Times, Sunday Times
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Any unfancied teams remaining in the competition by that stage have done well to get that far, and can expect to meet a sticky end rather soon.
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GOALS, goals, goals between two largely unfancied sides.
The Sun
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He seemed distasted a little at her talking as she did at first, as well as I, taking it, as I fancied he would, as something forward of her; but when he saw me give such an answer, he came immediately to himself again.
Moll Flanders
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Few then had fancied this team to make waves in Euro 2004.
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She fancied for a moment that she could detect the faint rusty smell of hot steel.
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The Festival is not all-consuming but if you only have one fancied runner there is no margin for error.
The Sun
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-- I have often, I said, fancied that, besides the load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he staggers, there is another weight on him -- an atrior cura at his tail -- and while his unshorn lips and nose together are performing that mocking, boisterous, Jack-indifferent cry of "Clo ', clo'!" who knows what woeful utterances are crying from the heart within?
Catherine: a Story
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What about the failure of England to finish off the Grand Slam over the past couple of seasons when they were stopped on the final day by unfancied Welsh and Scottish teams?
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Boasting all-round ability at various sports she mentioned at Huntington School, where she was a pupil, that she fancied trying to get a game of golf.
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Back in 1971, the mercurial Alex Murphy pulled off a minor miracle when unfancied Leigh toppled red-hot favourites Leeds to win the Challenge Cup final at Wembley.
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City were never expected to beat the highly-fancied Newcastle in 1911, which had a team packed with internationals.
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I fancied a change of scene.
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His decision was undeniably prompted by the fact that a girl he fancied was performing in the school play.
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The Final had been billed as a battle between the artists of Brazil and the artisans of Germany, but it was the unfancied European underdogs who started the stronger.
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The story ends at a funeral, hovered over by a surreal balloon, from which hangs a fancied female acrobat.
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Without doubt, Lamb's taste on several matters was peculiar; for instance, there were a few obsolete words, such as arride, agnize, burgeon, which he fancied, and chose to rescue from oblivion.
Charles Lamb
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This is not just my BDSM subbie side at work, as a lot of BDSM subbie types went for James Spader in Secretary big time - fancied the hell out of him, in fact.
On Your Marx
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The result leaves the unfancied Portuguese in pole position in the group after Germany and Romania battled each other to a 1-1 draw earlier in the day.
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Another fancied horse is 11-1 chance Simon.
The Sun
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Just a few hundred thousand couch potato members of the sports channel pay-per-view community, watching because there wasn't any football yet, or darts or speedway or boxing, getting value for their subscriptions, fat on the sofa in last year's Premier League football jersey, thick as you like, tweeting Bumble to say how much they fancied Lily Allen and googling "lbw" to find out why the man in the motorbike helmet had to go home when the ball only hit him on the leg.
Top stories from Times Online
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Thus the name indicated the joy of the people at the fancied propitiation of the god by this sacrifice; in antithesis to its joyless name subsequently. valley of slaughter -- It should be the scene of slaughter, no longer of children, but of men; not of "innocents" (Jer 19: 4), but of those who richly deserved their fate.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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I knew the church condemned _accidia_, but the whole idea seemed to me quite fantastic, just the sort of sin, I fancied, a priest who knew nothing about real life would invent.
De Profundis
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I fancied a change of shopping venue today, so we tried Horncastle for the first time.
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Octavia is a blonde goddess whom I have fancied for quite a while, so I do my best to satisfy Saki's orders - and end up with quite a large lovebite on my breast.
Evening Standard - Home
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Impressed by media since her childhood, she fancied to work with a TV channel or get her bylines published in newspapers.
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He looked kind and craggy and outdoorsy and she realised with a horrible surety that she fancied him.
FALLEN WOMEN
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But all is not lost as fancied horses have done well.
The Sun
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It seems Bourdain, a CIA graduate and trained French chef (see: Brasserie Les Halles), never fancied himself good in the kitchen.
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They came as a fancied side but have lost twice and failed to score.
The Sun
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-- - The flowers of these plants are called papilionaceous, or butterfly-like, from the fancied resemblance of the expanded superior petals to the wings of a butterfly.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
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I picked up a bottle half buried in the wet sand, covered with barnacles, but stoppled tight, and half full of red ale, which still smacked of juniper, -- all that remained I fancied from the wreck of a rowdy world, -- that great salt sea on the one hand, and this little sea of ale on the other, preserving their separate characters.
Cape Cod
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Fortunately he fancied the river, as it had been blazing sunshine all day and I was sick of being stuck indoors.
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That will have blown away the cobwebs and he is strongly fancied to regain winning brackets.
The Sun
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The first time he said this - way back when we were freshers at Bristol University - I thought he fancied me and was asking me out on a date.
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On the way home he suddenly blurted out that he fancied me.
The Sun
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With so many well-fancied horses failing to finish, it was a good day for the bookmakers.
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She fancied she heard answers in the affirmative, and then again she wasn’t sure.
Peter Pan
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She glanced across the room and for a second, she fancied that she saw Emily Bronte, an unreadable expression on her face, nodding her approval.
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I fancied that they traveled in a long train behind their blue-blooded lordling.
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Ghana was much fancied, thanks to its resources and its political and economic stability.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a middle class radical who fancied the idea of being around two real street kids.
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You could have a tower of them, tapering in size, if you fancied it.
Times, Sunday Times
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FOR some days after this time, Mrs. Randolph fancied that her little daughter was less lively than usual; she "moped," her mother said.
Melbourne House
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Some were crying, some laughing aloud some groaning and howling and some holding forth in fancied exhortations.
The Hidden Hand
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Nobody fancied taking the stuff the next week.
Notorious: The Maddest and Baddest Sportsmen on the Planet
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But the king, who had studied artistic theory with Aristotle and fancied himself a connoisseur of fine paintings, demanded that Apelles try again.
Alexander the Great
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And as for going as cook, — though I confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board — yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls; — though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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So he took the lute and swept the strings, and by Allah, I fancied they spoke in Arabic tongue, with a sweet and liquid and murmurous voice; then he began and sang these couplets,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Again the opposition will be unfancied and German.
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Nero fancied himself an artist of some accomplishment.
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No such thoughts troubled her, he fancied.
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I never fancied broiling fowls; -- though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.
Moby Dick, or, the whale
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The female moneylender, who was old, fat and ugly fancied the farmer's handsome son, Cliff.
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They began as a hefty team that fancied their chances.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm sure if we were one of the more fancied teams, one of them might have been given.
The Sun
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If you have ever fancied a pot policeman gnome for the front garden or a pair of matching T-shirts with the words Head Gardener and Head Gardener's Assistant on the front, this is the place to come.
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Friedrich Engels, who fancied himself a champion of the workingman, regarded the Irish immigrant to Great Britain as having a "crudity" that "places him little above the savage.
The Right Coast
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I fancied a change of scene.
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Two wins from two starts is his record and this highly-rated gelding is fancied for a hat-trick in a fiercely competitive event.
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Some heroic defending against the wind in the first half and hard grafting throughout the field kept the men from the Wexford border in contention with the fancied champions for three quarters of the game.
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His skin was so pale Sara fancied she could see through it, and his single normal eye had become stained as dark as the obsidian one which sat in his other eye socket.
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I had just enjoyed an excellent dinner at the Victoria and fancied a quiet drink on the terrace in the late evening sunshine that was bathing Torquay.
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I fancied that she imagined her wedding to the squinty-eyed, dumpy man sitting beside her.
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The squeak of my match sounded as loud as the scraping of a brake, and I almost fancied I heard it fall when I tossed it onto the grass.
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Within a month we'd cobbled together a set and played a couple of parties but nobody fancied singing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cravings of his heart in this respect are evident, we think, throughout his career; and if we have dwelt with more significancy than others upon his intercourse with the beautiful Horneck family, it is because we fancied we could detect, amid his playful attentions to one of its members, a lurking sentiment of tenderness, kept down by conscious poverty and a humiliating idea of personal defects.
The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
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I heard the "wheep" of the shaft, and fancied I heard it strike; but the steed kept on!
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
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She talked so much about birth, that, for a moment, I half fancied and with pain - but, what an idle fancy to suppose that she could think or care what mine was!
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Our neighbor Elizabeth fancied herself a paint maven, proclaiming that light colors dried darker and dark colors dried lighter.
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The defeat was one of four quarter-final upsets as the unfancied countries made the last four.
The Sun
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Opened 75 years ago, one of the hotel's earliest visitors was the crime writer Agatha Christie, who also fancied herself as a bit of a gourmand.
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The Confederate leader, General Johnston, therefore determined to creep up stealthily, and attack the Federals where they lay in fancied security.
This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States
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The mental toughness of Germany in that game was phenomenal, destroying one of the fancied teams on their own turf.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is fancied to turn that form around over this extra half-mile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Occasionally she fancied she could see a sudden bright flash that might be a laser cannon glinting off a rock.
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I fancied that I could see the pulse in his neck slow, and stop.
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For a team that were highly fancied to win, The Harps never seemed to be hurling as fluently as we all know they can and were also hampered by injuries causing a reshuffle in their defence.
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The fancied riders grouped together at the tail-end of the field, separated by two minutes as is the new practice in major events.
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A source said last night: 'He said he was trawling the streets until he found one he fancied.
The Sun
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I fancied myself a long jumper in those days, setting the record at my school.
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The Hydrozoa were represented not only by jellyfish but also by the GRAPTOLITE, which takes its name from a fancied resemblance of some of its forms to a quill pen.
The Elements of Geology
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We met at Jaycee Park in the Gables, an outdoor court that J. C. fancied his home turf, given the similar-sounding name.
A KING'S RANSOM
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Heywood fancied the urchin was a wild beast of some sort on two legs, but a second glance convinced him that he was a real boy.
Away in the Wilderness
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The more I looked at everything in the house, the more I was struck with its quasi-European character; and had the walls only been pasted over with extracts from The Illustrated London News and Punch, I could have almost fancied myself in a shepherd's hut upon my master's sheep-run.
Erewhon; or, Over the range
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Miss Pepper groaned, remembering the holiday at Rubadub when Snubby had fancied himself at playing all kinds of instruments, not only banjoes.
Working Without a Net
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As the sense of ‘breathing-place’ appears to be inapplicable to the earliest use of the word (see sense 1) in French and English, the name may originally have been given to the piece of armour from a real or fancied resemblance to some other article so designated.
Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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That will have blown away the cobwebs and he is strongly fancied to regain winning brackets.
The Sun
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He was very intent on this task, as if he fancied himself a latter-day St. Francis.
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He says no one fancied him at school.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.
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Oh, then, let me implore you to listen, and God grant your heart may be touched by my words!" rejoined Ella, eagerly, as she fancied she saw something of relentment in his stern features.
Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life
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The sort of people who fancied they might have checked in to the hotel.
Times, Sunday Times
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During this compulsatory voyage, he describes himself as affected with the most horrible sea sickness; and here his representation of a person labouring under that detestable malady was so accurate, that I almost fancied myself again in the cockpit of the Actæon, and all the terrors of the voyage across the
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
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I fancied I was slightly disappointed in Taglioni, whose dancing followed Pasta's singing, but I suppose the magnificent tragical performance I had just witnessed had numbed as it were my power of appreciation of her grace and elegance, and yet she seemed to me like a _dancing flower_; so you see I must have like her very much.
Records of a Girlhood
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When they bade the viewers goodnight at closedown, it was, the critic Peter Black fancied, as if they were tucking them up for the night.
Mary Malcolm obituary
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The unfancied Lancashire side delivered a jolt to City's ambitions with a 3-1 win at Valley Parade.
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But I fancied the savoury pancakes stuffed with mushrooms, tomatoes and onions, and covered in a creamy cheese sauce.
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There have been many examples of unfancied teams playing with courage and harassing the favoured teams but, until last night, no examples of them actually winning.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plato himself; a purely dramatic invention, it might perhaps have been fancied, or, so to speak, an idolon theatri -- Plato's self, but presented, with the reserve appropriate to his fastidious genius, in a kind of stage disguise.
Plato and Platonism
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Your father was friendly to me and tried to persuade me against what he called rashness; but I always fancied he might have helped my mother, backed her up more, and I did not heed him.
A Crooked Path A Novel
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The first time he said this - way back when we were freshers at Bristol University - I thought he fancied me and was asking me out on a date.
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But having trashed the place, the Romans eventually fancied it for themselves; a new city was built over the ruins of Carthage, and Tunisia became the granary of the Roman Empire.
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Rich though he was, he had never been open-handed; but nothing was too fine for his wife, in the way of silks or gems or linen, or whatever else she fancied.
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He then briefly unfolded to the eagerly listening Bruce (whose aspiring spirit, inflamed by the fervor of youth, and winged by natural courage, saw the glory alone of the enterprise), an attack which he meant to make on the camp of Edward, while his victorious troops slept in fancied security.
The Scottish Chiefs
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The well-fancied Diaghilev loses his chance at the very beginning of the race when he dallies in the stalls.
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Edwin fancied that he heard a noise somewhere behind him.
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a fancied wrong
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He'll need another career-best as some of the fancied horses failed to fire that day.
The Sun
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I fancied that I could even hear the deep "roust" she made as she respired the air, without which she cannot exist any more than animals of the land or air.
Peter the Whaler
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I do not know that I like to think of those Roman mines myself, where it is said the sea now surges back and forth: they must have been worked by British slaves, who may be fancied climbing purblindly out when the legions left Britain, and not joining very loudly in the general lamentation at their withdrawal, but probably tempering the popular grief with the reflection that the heathen Saxons could not be much worse.
Seven English Cities
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I once witnessed a fellow journalist, who fancied himself as a dab hand at off-roading, make a simple mistake and get it all terribly wrong.
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Whilst Ipswich never got higher than 3rd their story was much the same - unfancied, no stars, smallish squad and a great team spirit.
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Em wasn't imagining the bitterness she fancied she heard in her voice.
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He fancied himself a poet and Bohemian, smoked and drank every night, held court on politics and literature, took home a lengthy succession of women, and dropped Day's anarchism, pacifism and religion, in that order.
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Well, I've fancied so myself, and I've had an idea of some time asking him; Fulkerson strikes one as truly domesticable, conjugable at heart; but I've waited for him to speak.
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete
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Not a lot of people fancied us.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact I have fancied her since the day we met.
The Sun
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So I leave and toddle off to Dukes, as is my long-felt wont, and there's Guy - who's never been to Dukes before in his life but ‘fancied a change’?
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The word ideologue was often in Bonaparte's mouth; and in using it he endeavoured to throw ridicule on those men whom he fancied to have a tendency towards the doctrine of indefinite perfectibility.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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Rather unusually for me I fancied a swim instead of the gym this morning so did some leisurely lengths before eight then sat in the bubbly spa feeling springy.
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As a rule of thumb, it's hard to go wrong with classics like the parlour palm, dracaenas, rubber plants, aspidistra (I've always fancied a variegated one), cacti, succulents and the umbrella plant.
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Ferdy Murphy's gelding will require every yard of this extended two and a half miles, but will love the soft ground and is fancied to take plenty of beating.
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It was the Grim Reaper, but he was not as wild or demonic as she had once fancied him to be.
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It was like a dream, really, to have fancied this boy for weeks, then discover he admired her too.
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It's when we met the Ramsays and Robinsons, got whipped up in the romance of Scott and Charlene, hated Mrs Mangel but fancied her dowdy granddaughter Jane, and laughed along to the "larrikin" japes of Des
Hecklerspray
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She took up her Bible and read several chapters, which she fancied would uncloud her mind; but in vain.
Beulah
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There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that it was His mirth.
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But Jim, a retired painter and decorator, never fancied his own chances in front of the camera.
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When he noticed the camp counselor spirit that animated her while she tussled with his toddler sons, and how easily she jollied his sometimes dour boys into giggles, Enrique fancied that he was meeting the adolescent girl whose idolatrous kid brother forgave her for all his wounds.
A Happy Marriage
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If you've fancied having a crack at catching a real shark, then go for the blues and don't think twice about it.
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On the way home he suddenly blurted out that he fancied me.
The Sun
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Ah, poor fellow! nothing can be more melancholy; unless, as young men sometimes do, you had fancied yourself in love with some trumpery specimen of womankind, which is indeed, as Shakspeare truly says, pressing to death, whipping, and hanging all at once.
The Antiquary — Complete
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If Holmes recovers she could also land a medal in the 1500m, while Trafford's Chris Rawlinson is among the fancied runners for the 400m hurdles on Thursday.
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Ala al-Din fancied that the Caliph was jesting with him; but, on the morrow, the King went in to Kut al-Kulub and said to her, I have given thee to Ala Al – Din, whereat she rejoiced, for she had seen and loved him.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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I fancied that I saw disappointment flash in his eyes for a second when he turned to look at me, and I averted my gaze.
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She said she always fancied me, now she really, really fancies me!
The Sun
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The story just ended up being a perfect vehicle for mentioning any piece of bizarre esoterica that I fancied and seemed to fit.
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I've never fancied chop suey, not since someone told me with malice aforethought that it's Chinese for `mixed bits '.
KICK BACK
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Did one want to live out his days in sweet content, amid fancied picturings of paradisial beauty, I know of no place better suited to the taste than this residence.
Mountain Scenery. The Scenery of the Mountains of Western North Carolina and Northwestern South Carolina.
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The story ends at a funeral, hovered over by a surreal balloon, from which hangs a fancied female acrobat.
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Tomorrow's extra furlong will suit him better and this speedy gelding is fancied to dominate, providing he can handle the Fibresand surface.
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Rich though he was, he had never been open-handed; but nothing was too fine for his wife, in the way of silks or gems or linen, or whatever else she fancied.
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And when you throve, you looked about you and saw the beauty of the world and fancied yet greater beauty.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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The oil companies and speculators won "big time," to use a phrase fancied by one famous administration official early on.
Brian Oxman: You Can Fool all of the People all of the Time
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It was a bit of a fluke, but they were there at the end when the more fancied runners weren't.
Times, Sunday Times
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Masons became builders; painters became contractors; speculating became an industry, and small business fancied up itself into an association.
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But they must have fancied their chances after a goalless first half here where there was not a single shot on target.
The Sun
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There has been another murder committed within a few miles of this place, which has given us something to gossip about, for the committee of vigilance had the good nature, purely for our amusement I conclude, to apprehend a lucky individual (I call him _lucky_ advisedly, for he had all his expenses paid at the Humboldt, was remunerated for his lost time, enjoyed a holiday from hard work, had a sort of guard of honor composed of the most respectable men on the river, and was of more consequence for four days than ever he had been in the whole of his insignificant little life before) whom somebody fancied bore a faint resemblance to the description of the murderer.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
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Ever fancied a global treasure hunt with cryptic clues embedded in worldwide media?
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He fancied a scout round Victoria but I told him I preferred Wapping instead.
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Once or twice there appeared a little "purl" on the surface, near the line of the floats, and Ossaroo fancied he had made a "take" of it; but, on wading in and examining the net, not a fin could be found, and he had to wade out again with empty hands.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
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Thankfully, neither fancied lying across the bonnet wearing a bikini.
The Sun
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Mark Johnston saddles The Bonus King in the Norfolk Stakes and this speedy colt is fancied to take plenty of catching.
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She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window
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Didn't get the job she fancied in the reshuffle, so suddenly she's turned from loyal Gordonite to moaner about him treating her as female window dressing.
[caroline flint] is it true?
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I've always fancied those mystical sunlit uplands.
Times, Sunday Times
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The puddings were mainly flans, pastries and coffee gateau, which none of us really fancied, and we all went for a perfectly acceptable fruit salad alternative.
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Kerry Lads, another recent course winner, is fancied to defy top-weight in the Hamilton Campbell Handicap.
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And that follows last week's nightmare of fancied teams going down the pan quicker than a dodgy Ruby.
The Sun
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He had some good moves and clearly fancied himself, but I tapped him with a left to the body and he dropped his hands, so I sent in a right hand and from then it was just a matter of time.
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Within a month we'd cobbled together a set and played a couple of parties but nobody fancied singing.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a working-class intellectual which was how I rather cockily fancied myself as a student to speak and understand French is to short-circuit many of the stupidities of class prejudice in the UK.
French is too important to be left to middle-class Francophiles | Andrew Hussey
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I have often, I said, fancied that, besides the load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he staggers, there is another weight on him — an atrior cura at his tail — and while his unshorn lips and nose together are performing that mocking, boisterous,
Catherine: a story
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They began as a hefty team that fancied their chances.
Times, Sunday Times
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* Caprimulgus rufus called chuck-will's-widow, from a fancied resemblance of his notes to these words: they inhabit the maritime parts of Carolina and Florida, and are more than twice the size of the night hawk or whip-poor-will. and active mock-bird.
Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
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Possibly he might have fancied that we had come by train, had not Ropes been starting the car at that moment, _en route_ for some resting-place masquerading as a garage; and the “choof, choof” of my Gloria came in through the open doors like a defiant laugh.
The Car of Destiny
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The berg is a good deal larger than I had fancied," answered Andrew.
Archibald Hughson An Arctic Story
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Soldiers, with their intelligent _silence, _ with the touches of effective Spartanism I saw or fancied in them, were the class of people that pleased me best.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.
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It's found in a Perilous Chapel, which seems to exist in an Otherworld "he half fancied that the Federal Hill of that distant view was a dream-world never to be trod by living human feet", by a young and inexperienced quester who doesn't even know what he's looking for.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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I fancied the idea of seeing gorillas in Uganda.
Times, Sunday Times
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Joints were often produced at parties or even in clubs, and passed among those who fancied a 'toke'.
John
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Herzen is not a German as you fancied him, but a Russian; and he is rich, which is indicated by his having given Mazzini two hundred pounds for his objects.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Government, for 2 pounds an acre; and if a "cockatoo" (i.e., a small farmer), or a speculator in mines, fancied any part of your property, he had only to go to the land office, and challenge your pre-emptive rights.
Station Amusements
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As regards his literary craftsmanship, Lowell charges him only with having revived the age of _concetti_ while he fancied himself going back to a preclassical nature, basing the charge on such a far-fetched comparison as that in which Thoreau declares his preference for "the dry wit of decayed cranberry-vines and the fresh Attic salt of the moss-beds" over the wit of the Greek sages as it comes to us in the
The Last Harvest
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I fancied I heard a hissing, as pipes bore the increasing pressure of the ship's various hydraulic systems.
ANTI-ICE
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Tomorrow's race promises to be tougher, but the Norton gelding is fancied to produce a repeat performance under regular rider Paul Hanagan.
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These also recovered, and by the following morning all had passed the ordeal, save one, who having escaped so much longer than the rest, fancied himself entirely out of danger, and indiscreetly boasted of his better constitution, laughing at what he called the effeminacy of his companions.
Life in the Rocky Mountains
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She fancied herself nervous.
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I've always fancied those mystical sunlit uplands.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it is more instructive, perhaps, for him to go back a couple of seasons earlier, when David Gower brought an unfancied team to India and walked away victorious.
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Ive aye fancied mysel as the Gala Queen.
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She filled a pillowcase with oddments that she fancied might be useful on the road.
DISPLACED PERSON
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The ludicrousness, absurdity, and extraordinary contrast between what the fellow fancied, and the reality, was truly comick.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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Desmond fancied he saw a slight smile curl the lips of the natives; then the sentry called another peon who stood at hand, and sent him into the palace.
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India
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PapilionaceæAn order of Plants (see LEGUMINOSÆ), The flowers of these plants are called papilionaceous, or butterfly-like, from the fancied resemblance of the expanded superior petals to the wings of a butterfly.
Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume
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We know only too well the unfancied team can prosper.
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She said she had bred pointers and kept budgerigars and fancied something different.
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What was it to him that these uneducated boors, in their feeble ignorance, tried constantly to entrap him into something which they called unorthodox, and to twist his words into the semblance of fancied heresy?
St. Winifred's, or The World of School
