Meanings of mad fancy in English

To-morrow I will have it examined by Planchette, and put an end to this mad fancy.

You were ruining yourself by a mad fancy.

Purcell stood generally for 'the enemy;' and to Purcell his half- mad fancy attributed most of his misfortunes.

A mad fancy when he might be a Pharaoh on his own account, but so it is.

She knelt there until some measure of strength came back to her, and, with it, a mad fancy.

That is to say, his mad fancy reverted from the lady of perhaps thirty-five to the lady of seventy.

You have here at a glance more beauty and dread conjoined than even his mad fancy could conjure up.

What a mad fancy!

Life is simple enough, it seems, and the very idea of sacrifice becomes like a mad fancy out of a last night's dream.

She had a mad fancy that Death was calling her, from some far height, because Anthony Dexter had passed her on the road.

Could it have been a slight quivering of the nostrils that he had seen, or was it mad fancy playing a trick on him?

The spectacle lost the appearance of reality, and became as it were an orgy of blood, a dreadful dream, a gigantic kaleidoscope of mad fancy.

But this I know, I were both naught and ungrateful, and the worst foe e'er you had, did I take advantage of this mad fancy.

Let me dream on, give my mad fancy full play; or slay me if you will, but do not say that I mistake your meaning!

She must never come out of this place with her mad fancies.

But somehow all the mad fancies of my youth come back.