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Meanings of absurd fancy in English

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Usage of absurd fancy in English
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We all repudiate it as a most repulsive and absurd fancy.
The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
2
Pray,-praydo not let any absurd fancy stand in your way, and destroy everything.
He Knew He Was Right
3
It was an absurd fancy, at which, in a moment, she was smiling bitterly enough.
Bella Donna: A Novel
4
He was very sleepy, poor fellow, and could hardly smile at his own absurd fancy.
The Gorilla Hunters
5
You have some absurd fancy in your head about your father fetching you away from us.'
'Me and Nobbles'
6
Kilmeny, darling, you have taken a very absurd fancy into that dear black head of yours.
Kilmeny of the Orchard
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Suddenly an absurd fancy seized her.
The Cathedral: A Novel
8
Stealing a side-glance at him, Cornelia was possessed by an absurd fancy that he was alarmed at his position.
Bressant: A Novel
9
Then for my sake, my darling wife, send away this extravagance, this folly, this absurd fancy that has got such a hold of you.
Paul Faber, Surgeon
10
On the contrary, he that composes himself to sleep, in case of any uncouth or absurd fancy, easily suspects it to have been a dream.
Thaumaturgia; Or, Elucidations of the Marvellous
11
There never was a child so full of absurd fancies.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
12
They are not absurd fancies any more than what you were saying just now.
Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life
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So Ethel has infected you with her absurd fancies!
The House of the Vampire
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The most absurd fancies took possession of him.
Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories
15
Absurd fancy: this is my real situation.
French and Oriental Love in a Harem
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She told me, in answer, to mind my own business, and not to take absurd fancies in my head.
East Lynne
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