| 单词 | fancifully |
| 例句 | But life being what it is, how can ordinary people truly be expected to have 'strong opinions' on all manner of things - as Mr Harry Smith rather fancifully claims the villagers here do? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I suppose the things that transform your life don’t appear as you fancifully imagine they will. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z By fancifully filling the gaps of history, “Yasuke” has created an intriguing hero, even if you may end it wanting to know him a little better. Review: ‘Yasuke’ Reclaims a Black Samurai From History 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z "Magic" goes at the idea of what is beyond the bitter end, a bit like "Annie Hall" played at tennis — batting at it lightly, fancifully, at times ridiculously, but not as cleverly. 'Magic in the Moonlight' is an amusing trifle of a film 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Adès takes more time fancifully tormenting the high and mighty than he does the lower orders. Thomas Adès and the L.A. Phil find life in the Dance of Death 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z But the best-known brand so far is the fancifully named Monkey 47, made in the Black Forest. Beyond Beer: Germany Goes All In for Gin 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z A 60-foot-high central atrium, called the Canyon, is less spectacular than intended, partly because the panoramic view of snow-covered mountains is so much more compelling than the fancifully jagged interior. Museum Review: The Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City 2012-03-23T22:08:01Z Two live musicians underscore a lot of the action, and Patti Kalil’s storybook set features two-dimensional painted tree trunks that fancifully join functional beds and benches at the base. Review | Women’s Voices notes: An exotic ‘Imogen’ and a down-home ‘Hound’ 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z They were also, admittedly, likely a little nauseated, a side effect easily chalked up to the film’s shaky camera work but soon fancifully reported as vomit-level scares. Horror’s first viral hit: How “The Blair Witch Project” revolutionized movies 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z “Darling Rose Gold” sticks close to some of these details and fancifully departs from others. Review | The Gypsy Rose Blanchard case gets another twist in the novel ‘Darling Rose Gold’ 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z You’ll discover the fancifully striped Red St. Lawrence from Maine, the sleek Arkansas Black, the ruby Hidden Rose from Oregon, the pearly Yellow Transparent from Russia and several tortured knobbed russets from Sussex, England. A Book for Your Johnny Appleseed 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z The quote on it is a fancifully imagined one from the baby, who smiles from the rug. Editor fires back at racist complaints: “Championing of diversity does not extend to bigots” 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z At the end, in what is a bit fancifully called a grotto, you discover an object that looks like melted mounds of mood candles, representing a woman’s G-spot. ‘Funland’ at Museum of Sex Imitates a Carnival Visit 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The solos are interactions with the melodic material of the piece, fancifully girlish in the first movement, dreamily seductive in the second and dashingly here-I-come in the finale. The Pacific Symphony lives up to its name, with the help of India 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z A century later, it remains a throwback to the early glamour days of skyscraper living: a dozen brick towers fancifully decorated with half-timbered lobbies, stone crests and other mock-Tudor details. Everything You Think You Know About Housing Is Probably Wrong 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The later works in the show are dire: portraits of rich crones, fluffy socialites and their obnoxious lapdogs, plus some magic-realist landscapes that are too fancifully magical to be realistic. George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z Here, it thought fancifully, lay the true destiny of acid house: to make the world a better place, where humanity would, as the song suggested, live as one family inna sweet harmony. Paris Hilton's DJ debut: was it a complete fiasco? 2012-07-05T19:00:02Z The Stucky, despite the seeming formality of its title, reads more like an extended fantasy, and its seven movements are more fancifully titled: “Night Music,” “Jugglers,” “Fireworks” and the like. Music Review: Twelve in 12, Trinity Wall Street’s Concerts at One 2012-09-10T04:15:05Z Flanner has two party masks fancifully attached to her top hat in Abbott’s picture, but her gaze is open and confident. Art Review: Sexuality in Modernism: The (Partial) History 2010-12-10T23:38:00Z Interesting how men like O’Reilly would prefer to fancifully imagine what “the babies,” peacefully “ingesting” in the womb, would tell us rather than confront the realities of sentient adult women are saying right now. Bill O’Reilly speaks for the babies 2013-02-05T16:09:00Z Yet they can also see a feline parody of “America’s Got Talent,” fancifully animated dog and cat crime capers and a documentary about golden retrievers that served as the legitimately elected mayors of Idyllwild, Calif. Animal Lovers, Rejoice: The NY Cat and Dog Film Festivals Return 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The score is always there to reproach you, the key to the musical depths that are fancifully ascribed to an artist's own suffering. Schubert: lieder of the pack 2011-03-10T22:43:00Z It’s impossible to imagine a line this fancifully dead in the first half. Review: With ‘The Correspondence,’ a New Contender in the Ring 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z No matter what else happened in their lives, at least the issue of a prom date, we both fancifully agreed, was settled. Even gay-friendly parents still assume their kids are straight 2013-03-15T15:20:00Z After their disembodied hands and arms became creatures in a double reflection — fancifully deceiving the eye — they continued until a leg and then a torso emerged, essentially freeing the body from the machine. Dance Review: Mirrors, Clowns and Other Visions 2011-04-17T20:46:46Z I expected "Ewo!" or "Jesus!" or, more fancifully, something else in Igbo, exotic and delicious to my city ears. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Facts are stranger than fiction 2013-04-19T17:29:01Z Hibernating Bears A final sleuth of Broadways Bears — the fancifully attired, celebrity-lookalike teddy bears — will be auctioned off for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Parties, Openings, and Fashionable Spots for the Week of March 14 2012-03-14T20:33:45Z In his book “The Singularity Is Near,” Ray Kurzweil fancifully imagines a future civilization in which computers that have developed a consciousness build even more powerful computers for their own needs. Science doesn’t disprove God: Where Richard Dawkins and new atheists go wrong 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z More fancifully, Suzanne Vigil portrays a woman and a nesting goose on a partly submerged bicycle under a full moon. Review | In the galleries: At Strathmore, artists illuminate the darkness 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Gorgeous enlists six of her friends as accompaniment, a giggling retinue of nymphs fancifully named Sweet, Melody, Fantasy, Prof, Mac and Kung Fu. 2010-01-15T04:07:00Z Like the cartoons it honors, “The Cuphead Show” sets everything onscreen swaying and bopping, from the fancifully constructed characters to the vehicles, buildings and landscapes, which often turn into vocal characters in their own right. Here Are Three Netflix Cartoons You Should Be Watching 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z The three most unsettling paintings depict fancifully tinted beasts of the air, earth and sea, all in close-up, all in profile and all headed to the left. Aaron Morse at Acme: Paintings of sublime worlds gone wrong 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Bennett does not so much imitate birds here as expand fancifully and often broadly — with a modernist’s angularity — on what they do, and Ms. Spencer’s readings were virtuosic and shapely. Music Review: Da Capo Chamber Players at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-10-12T21:03:33Z At Proenza Schouler, fancifully curved matte black and white metal necklaces were shown with stark button-down shirts; at Balenciaga, clutches and shoes in flowery embossed leather were extravagant enough to be at home in Versailles. Fine Points: Baroque Flourishes on Accessories for Fall - NY Fashion Week 2011-09-07T21:29:55Z All volunteers need to do is choose a section, or several, from the 18 episodes, structured loosely on Homer’s epic, “then thoughtfully, soulfully, fancifully compose a series of 4-6 tweets to represent that section.” ArtsBeat: Boiling Down ?Ulysses? for Twitter 2011-05-25T17:00:42Z One might fancifully imagine that the two members of the younger generation depicted in “The Humans” — sisters played by Sarah Steele and Cassie Beck — would be feeling the Bern. Onstage, the Pain Behind the Political Posturing 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Speaking fancifully is not meant to diminish the sophistication of the tools used by evolutionary biologists and their colleagues to explore the dynamics of natural selection. Sex’s feel-good evolution: Charles Darwin’s erotic shocker 2014-03-09T20:00:00Z On either side of the stage, two Pierrots pound plangent chords at the Mighty Wurlitzer organs, out of which sprouts metal piping, fancifully twisted like a Ted Geisel Seussaphone. Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana: The Summer's Great Stage Show 2011-07-03T05:50:00Z The models looked like urchins washed up from the ocean, fancifully dressed and then sent out on the runway as if nothing was amiss. On the Runway Blog: Marbleized Surface Trend on Runways 2013-09-12T02:17:47Z Didi and her husband lived in a short yellow rambler down the block, one of those houses that blooms fancifully in the child mind, as if warped by the shimmering summer heat. The secret weapon in Mom’s underground poker party sandwiches 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z After the Reagan era, though, popular shows tended to follow upscale professionals, or to look more like “Friends” or “Seinfeld,” portraying people who lived comfortably despite being vaguely or fancifully employed. Has America Ignored the Workplace for Too Long? 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z "The stone was looking at me and I was looking at it. It wanted me to set it free from the wall!" says Dr Sadek fancifully. Cairo masterplan threatens ancient City of the Dead 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z Cleveland was so notorious for losing that a fancifully woeful version of the team was at the heart of the 1989 movie comedy “Major League.” Rick Wolff, Sports Radio Host and Much More, Is Dead at 71 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Rich McCormick of Georgia, who claimed fancifully that masks are harmful to childrens’ health; and Michael Cloud of Texas, who has gone on record blaming the Chinese government for the pandemic. Column: Despite latest reports, there's still not a speck of evidence that COVID escaped from a Chinese lab 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z And it seemed, perhaps fancifully, that those two moments had become the bookends of a generation and of a nation’s frayed sense of equilibrium. From Coronation to Funeral: Bookends to the Life of a Queen, and a Generation 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Taffeta is fancifully engaged in historical revisionism, but it’s her own history that is as much at stake as Lincoln’s. Review: Was Abraham Lincoln gay? A new play in L.A. imagines his life through a queer lens 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z And now Democrats in Congress are embracing the same fallacy as they ram through a package of climate, tax and health-care initiatives fancifully marketed as the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.” Perspective | Why the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ is no such thing 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z Out of nowhere the concerto roams into a world of fancifully skipping minuets before returning more forcefully to the beginning drama. Review: Is it finally time to take Saint-Saëns seriously? 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z He also predicted — perhaps fancifully given his sagging approval ratings — that Democrats might pick up a whopping four Senate seats during November’s midterm elections. Biden raised $7.8M since March ahead of bigger money push 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z It was sunlight reflected at a particular angle off the sides of a cave, but the discovery soon made its way to Israeli television and was fancifully named “the burning bush.” Is That a Burning Bush? Is This Mt. Sinai? Solstice Bolsters a Claim 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Electric cars seem fancifully expensive to people encouraged not so long ago to buy fuel-efficient diesel automobiles. In France, the People the Climate Summit Forgot 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Sometimes Daubechies gives a fancifully impractical musical metaphor to describe the difference. The Godmother of the Digital Image 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The 13th full moon of 2020 shone over us Tuesday night in what might be fancifully regarded as a celestial farewell to a challenging period. That’s our 13th full moon of 2020 shining up there as the year ends 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Wolverine Watchmen, Proud Boys — whatever they fancifully call themselves — are violent gangs. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: This Barrett photo caption could have used more context 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Somewhat fancifully, it occurred to me that the alarm was false, that the men in the green coats had had enough--enough of strangers cluttering up their course! A Master's first look at the Masters - Golf Digest 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Some outsiders have fancifully described it as the Venice of Africa. 'I live in a floating slum' 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Bernhard created the seemingly impossible in his fancifully autobiographical novel, a humane nihilist for an Austria obsessed with the inglorious glories of a past. Review: David Lang’s ‘the loser’ brought to brilliant life through the hypnotic Rod Gilfry 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Whether you prefer a fancifully painted wooden horse from the golden age of carousels, a cuddly panda or a gleaming dragon, one of these wonderful carousels is waiting for you to climb aboard. 5 wonderful carousels that are fun for kids — and adults 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z A few feet away, a selection of Maki’s fancifully decorated coffee cups adorns the area above a set of lockers. Styrofoam cups serve as canvas for tent community artist 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z The bright primary colors pop … the buffed metal components gleam with a like-new sheen … and the varying designs - both true to their full-scale inspirations and fancifully imaginative - are pure-gold Americana on wheels. EXCHANGE: Classic toy cars cruise into history museum 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z The bright primary colors pop … the buffed metal components gleam with a like-new sheen … and the varying designs — both true to their full-scale inspirations and fancifully imaginative — are pure-gold Americana on wheels. EXCHANGE: Classic toy cars cruise into history museum 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Another European airport that elicits howls is Luton, which claims, fancifully, to be close to London. Which are the world’s worst airports? 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Most Republicans argue, fancifully, that tax cuts will trigger much faster economic growth, thereby plugging the hole. Republicans unveil a tax plan at last 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Most economists and budget experts dismiss that promise as fancifully unrealistic. Business Highlights 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Having, let us fancifully imagine, considered and found unconvincing William Seward’s 1858 judgment that the approaching Civil War was “an irrepressible conflict,” Trump says: Opinion | Trump has a dangerous disability 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z He talks, somewhat fancifully, about turning over the truck to a nephew and monitoring the business from home with an internet camera. Rolling Stores, Vestige of Old Atlanta, Struggle to Keep Up With Change 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z One Vietnamese author wrote fancifully of the huge cobweb of electrical, telephone and cable-television wires covering the city. What a Tangled Web We Weave 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z He flies in his private Boeing 757 — fancifully nicknamed Trump Force One — with its 24-karat gold taps and retinue of advisers. Notes From the Campaign Trail: A Measure of U.S. Fever 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z That led some establishment Republicans over the weekend to suggest, a bit fancifully, that Trump should drop out and let Pence take his place. While other Republicans have fled Donald Trump, Mike Pence is doubling down on their campaign 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z We are endlessly, fancifully predicting the future partly in order to distract ourselves from the fact that we’re already creating it, for good and ill. Story of cities #future: what will our growing megacities really look like? 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Related: Why Italia 90 was not beautiful to everyone, but will always be special | Amy Lawrence Palace fans had only dreamed fancifully that one day we might get to see our team at Wembley. How the 1990 FA Cup changed Crystal Palace, Manchester United and Liverpool 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z "If someone sees an allegorical painting of three fancifully dressed people eating, call me and I'll come check it out," Nye said. Rembrandt painting found in New Jersey basement now in museum 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Some believe - perhaps fancifully - that such contracts could remove the need for lawyers one day. From fine wine to lotteries: Blockchain tech takes off - BBC News 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The two-story residence, fancifully decorated with cartoon characters, has rounded walls of windows that take in 360-degree views of the Atlantic Ocean and the Miami cityscape. Carole King ready to part with Idaho ranch she's owned for more than 30 years 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z To convert to electricity or, more fancifully, to hydrogen, will involve substantial retooling that will be difficult to finance. Why don’t we have flying cars? | John Preston and Ben Waterson 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z And science is looked upon fancifully as in the Pope couplet, "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night.." Retrograde Beliefs 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z While traditionally, the lacy movement structure was fancifully embellished with frilly, engraved flourishes, today’s skeletons are modern and edgy, taking a less-is-more approach. Clear Winners: Skeleton Watches To Die For In 2015 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Baer wore one championship ring and spoke fancifully of how the next might look. Royals’ Last, Best Shot at Glory Is Held Up at Third 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Last fall the world followed, via tweets, blogs and videos, as scientists negotiated these fancifully named landmarks of the underground system of caves known as Rising Star just outside Johannesburg, South Africa. The New Science of Human Origins 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Maddon proposed, somewhat fancifully, that advancements in vision could someday help hitters’ reaction times. Hitters in M.L.B. This Season Have Struggled at Historic Rates 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z He fell for one of the oldest gotchas in the TV journalists’ handbook: on ITV's ITV's Good Morning Britain, he estimated a fancifully low figure for his own family’s weekly grocery budget. David Axelrod's First UK Election: More 'No We Can't' Than 'Yes We Can' 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Here a watchmaker not only chooses to display the movement of a watch, but also fancifully decorates it. Decorated Skeleton: Glashutte Original Senator Manual Winding Skeletonized Edition Watch 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Or, slightly less fancifully, the people of Taiwan? Non-interference on the line 2014-03-13T04:00:00Z He told Aaron to wear No. 2 and Andrew to wear No. 5 thinking, somewhat fancifully, that the inversed numbers might confuse opponents. Andrew and Aaron Harrison, Finding Their Way, Together 2014-04-05T01:41:19Z It still went by the same name – obmyvanie, which means bathing or, more fancifully, ablution – but the term was used in a figurative sense in the frugal years under communism. Russia Starts Striking Gold 2014-02-18T02:05:23Z Technically, it’s an adventure game, but more fancifully, I can describe Rain as an elegiac tone poem, a game of indie sensibility with AAA polish. A Hands-On Look At 'Rain' For The PS3 2013-06-14T22:00:00Z On the menu this is called, fancifully, Egg on Egg on Egg. Hungry City: SakaMai on the Lower East Side 2013-05-23T20:20:13Z Each room features a fancifully named exercise station that would, theoretically, help create energy to power the home, including an "arm workout bureau," a "spinning kitchen," and a "triceps greenhouse." A House Powered by Exercise Will Keep You in Shape While You Keep the Lights On 2013-05-13T17:15:05.260Z “Korn chick,” she fancifully called herself, after the dissonant metal band. Poor Students Struggle as Class Plays a Greater Role in Success 2012-12-22T23:44:18Z They are dressed in cotton and leather; but neither are these so tastefully arranged, or so fancifully ornamented with shells, as were those I described in a previous letter. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z He had learned to make sandal-wood jewel-boxes, and fancifully wrought cups to hold the various dyes and cosmetics used by the ladies of the court. Joel: A Boy of Galilee 2012-03-24T02:00:17.137Z Often there is a historical foundation which has been dealt with fancifully and enlarged into miraculous proportions. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z The Yahgan sling was made of a piece of raw hide, to which were attached strings of braided sinew that always ended in fancifully wrought knots. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z "Keep thou the secret, old ship," said Emily, fancifully, yet half in earnest; "tell it not while thou livest, and if thou must fall, let it perish with thee." Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z Then they returned, as he fancifully termed it, to go to work. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z Then next observe the three virtues definitely set forth by the three families of plants; not arbitrarily or fancifully associated with them, but in all the three cases marked for us by Scriptural words: 1st. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z As the waves of the sea are fancifully compared to horses, so a field of corn, waving in the breeze, may be said to represent the wedding of the sea-god and the corn-goddess. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z A dressed garden, I said, is Nature idealised—pastoral scenery put fancifully, in man's way. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z It was first called Losantiville, a name which is thus fancifully derived. The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 2012-02-04T03:00:17.917Z Sometimes he called Ruth this, fancifully, with the thought in mind that she was “cumbered with many cares.” The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat How they sailed away, what happened on the voyage, and what was discovered 2012-01-20T03:00:16.183Z Nevertheless, it has also permissible functions peculiarly its own, and certain rights of feigning, and adorning, and fancifully arranging, inalienable from its nature. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z This gallery leads to other apartments, lined with bones, variously and fancifully arranged. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Nature is idealised, treated fancifully in each, yet how different the quality of the contents, the method of presentment, the style, the technique of this and that, even when the design is contemporaneous! Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z In the poem of Silius Italicus, he is fancifully represented as distinguishing himself in personal combat like one of the heroes of the Iliad. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Because for this he can give no other proof than that he was writing fancifully without any foundation. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z Tumblers and other glasses may be cut or divided very fancifully by similar means. A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments, Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense. 2011-11-22T03:00:11.870Z In many respects it resembles the bobwhite in color, though far more fancifully marked. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z From the great falls a mighty river flowed for miles until that, too, appeared like a silver ribbon, tying the land fancifully in its loops. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z These may be mixed irregularly or fancifully, according to the pleasure of the operator. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z All the apartments in the Alcazar are fancifully named, but the designation of none is quite so stupid and misleading as this. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Frank Anderson confidently doubles as the lordly Mr. Westinghouse and as Benjamin Franklin, who fancifully materializes to counsel Edison on how to galvanize public opinion. | New Jersey: Edison and Tesla Spat in ?The Dangers of Electric Lighting? ? Review 2011-11-06T00:42:48Z These "are often fancifully ornamented on the exterior, with figures, in blue and red paint, rudely executed, though sometimes depicted with no small degree of taste." Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z I find, perhaps fancifully, an Irish vehemence in 'Remembrance.' A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats 2011-10-27T02:00:26.373Z A group of these columns, from their arrangement, have been fancifully named the “Giant’s Organ.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z Footsteps sounded without and a moment later a handsomely attired woman entered the room, followed a moment later by a fancifully garbed man. The Blue Grass Seminary Girls on the Water Exciting Adventures on a Summer Cruise Through the Panama Canal 2011-09-05T02:00:21.637Z I had summoned a meeting of our league, which we had so fancifully named "Santa Hermandad"—a fact that was to have future consequences which none of us ever dreamed of—by telegram from Paris. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z The estate of the uncle was on the shore of the Pacific, occupying a gentle slope with wide lawns, evergreen trees fancifully trimmed, and gushing fountains. Subconscious Religion 2011-08-22T02:00:58.937Z From his pocket he took a fancifully embellished package, and, opening it, he poured two or three tacks into Edward's hand. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z Valparaiso—"Vale of Paradise"—was thus fancifully named because of its assumed loveliness. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z But he wrote also a very noted book, entitled the Garden of Cyrus, in which he discussed learnedly, and often fancifully, numerous questions connected with the vegetable world. Addresses & Papers / Collectanea 2011-08-04T02:00:22.097Z I knew not how many of my auditors might be familiar with the country I was thus fancifully populating, and was careful not to know too much. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z Where they are employed they are usually of the small round tripod pattern, fancifully made for show, and are used only for the purpose of an ordinary table. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z The others, especially the saloons, were very fancifully christened. A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z Cudworth, to solve the enigma, fancifully concluded that the Deity had given a plastic faculty to matter—“A vital and spiritual, but unintelligent and necessary, agent to execute its purposes.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z To be fancifully dressed, in gaudy colors, is to be very badly dressed, however, and is an example of ill taste which is rarely met with among people of substantial good breeding. Martine's Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness 2011-05-08T02:00:05.770Z They were fancifully attired, some in green, and others in orange or blue hunting-jackets, after the tasteful fashion of the period; a costume admirably calculated to display their sylphan shapes. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z This shell is cut into elliptical, oblong, or fancifully formed plates which are pierced and hung by a cord. American Indians 2011-04-21T02:00:55.200Z Do not say that I am wandering, fancifully, from the serious work which we are upon: I am only beginning at the beginning. Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School 2011-03-27T02:00:15.947Z Others have stripes of red and yellow threads fancifully introduced toward the borders, which have a very agreeable effect. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II 2011-03-24T02:00:13.247Z When the jelly is fancifully and tastefully arranged, it makes a sightly dish. Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks 2011-03-23T02:00:22.007Z TX, a free, roving get-together of fancifully dressed community street bands. The Texas Tribune: GTT ? 2011-03-11T01:48:46Z His tie of a brilliant hue, a fancifully arranged handkerchief emerging from his breast pocket, the gayest of button-holes, and grey kid gloves completed an ensemble wonderful to behold. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z It all looked very bright and fancifully gay. The Eichhofs A Romance 2011-02-19T03:01:37.327Z A little white cap of the "mob" description adorns her head, and is trimmed fancifully with black velvet bows that match her gown. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z The worship of Isis was the most widely spread of all the pagan deities; it was received in Ethiopia and in Germany, and even the name of Paris has been fancifully traced to it. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z Again the sweet, wild power of the musicalness of the voice, and some soft, strange touch of foreignness in the accent,—so it fancifully seemed to Pierre, thrills through and through his soul. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z You will know, too, why you were not allowed to expose what you have so fancifully described as the 'House of Strange Secrets.' The House of Strange Secrets A Detective Story 2011-01-15T03:00:37.173Z In 1790 Hepplewhite followed with his designs, many of which were severe in contour, being wholly straight in front and arranged with two glass doors above, sometimes fancifully framed. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z They are sometimes used cold, and are arranged fancifully with different-colored meats, pickles, eggs, etc. The Century Cook Book 2011-01-04T03:01:10.367Z These mantas worn by this twain were fancifully embroidered, and showed that they were expensive garments. Where Duty Called or, In Honor Bound 2011-01-01T03:00:22.753Z After calming down, Mr. Gorky took Mr. Barnet for an instructive stroll, at one point stopping outside a shoe shop with a fancifully painted business sign. Painting at 99, With No Compromises 2010-10-26T14:25:00Z One of Mr. Wondrich’s more fancifully christened cocktails, the White Star Imperial Daisy, is in fact a mostly literal roadmap to its contents. Tipsy Diaries: Cocktails Now Served With Twists of the Tongue 2010-06-10T21:55:00Z The faith in fancifully high returns isn't just a harmless fairy tale. 2010-01-16T02:09:00Z The walls are, for the most part, plastered and white-washed, and generally have two or more shallow cupboards, the doors of which, as well as those of the apartments, are fancifully constructed with small panels. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments Few of our readers, we reckon, are inclined to participate in the admiration of the baroness, so fancifully expressed, for this singular head-dress. Dress as a Fine Art With Suggestions on Children's Dress But while some think evolution moves in a straight line forward, others speculate fancifully that it has a spiral twist upwards. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath But now, on his way, he began to ponder it lazily, dwelling fancifully on possibilities rather than arriving at anything rigid or definite. An Engagement of Convenience A Novel These were followed by a figure fancifully attired with armour, and velvet hat and plume, intended to represent King Gurgunt, the reputed founder of the castle. Rambles in an Old City comprising antiquarian, historical, biographical and political associations Venus fancifully draped, with Cupid hovering above her, stands in a grove of orange and myrtle and welcomes the approach of Spring, who enters heralded by Mercury, with Flora and Zephyrus gently urging her on. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" The book was a great success, as it was a picture of real life, and not of fancifully beribboned 18th-century villagers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" The second was a youth apparently about sixteen, dressed in a suit of green summer-cloth, neatly and fancifully adapted to his figure, which was graceful and boyish. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency The walk was not a long one, for in about ten minutes they came in sight of a pretty log house, gabled and fancifully roofed, and of quite pretentious dimensions. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance It is painted red, with light and fancifully coloured curtains for the sun, drawn by one horse, with a boy riding him—simple, fanciful, and peculiar to Yucatan. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. It has been sought, but perhaps fancifully, to identify this song with the existing chanson. A Short History of French Literature It is overshadowed by Tyvfjeld,—that is, "Thief Mountain," thus fancifully named because it robs the place of the little sunshine it might enjoy were this huge elevation not at all times intervening. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia Other barges fancifully decorated followed, having on board the heads of departments and other public officers, and several distinguished citizens. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools Three are portraits: Captain Holford's "Man with a Sword," Earl Cowper's "Young Man," and the fancifully named "Constable of Bourbon," in the collection of Herr Thieme at Leipzig. Great Masters in Painting: Rembrandt van Rijn The ceiling and walls were wainscoted with dark brown wood, fancifully inlaid with other coloured woods. The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. They were scuffed depressions, such as a ricocheting projectile might have made—but oddly regular in shape and spacing, almost, he thought fancifully, like giant footprints, ten feet apart.... World of the Drone Their hair was neatly collected, and tied up in a knot; their bodies fancifully painted red, and the paint was scented with hayawa. Wanderings in South America An exuberance of imagination very often led her mother to embroider fancifully the details of a story, but surely not this time. The Rosie World The idea of definitely undertaking to improve the innate characteristics of the human race has been expressed repeatedly through centuries—fancifully, seriously, hopefully, and now scientifically. The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics In the centre of the chapel, standing in the middle of a fancifully designed circle on the checkered marble floor, is an urn containing a marble ball. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise They were long, thick, yellow cakes, fancifully encrusted with chocolate. A Little Question in Ladies' Rights Boccaccio narrates a dream of the mother of Dante so fancifully poetical, that probably Boccaccio forgot that none but a dreamer could have told it. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Then next observe the three virtues definitely set forth by the three families of plants—not arbitrarily or fancifully associated with them, but in all the three cases marked for us by Scriptural words: 1st. Frondes Agrestes Readings in 'Modern Painters' Perhaps a little fancifully, a star has been assigned to each State in the order of its ratification of the Constitution and admission to the Union. The Little Book of the Flag White tapers with red shades show off to advantage above this dark fancifully wrought metal, shedding a softly subdued radiance, at once pretty and restful to the eye. Breakfasts and Teas Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions That is why I rather fancifully alluded to the Ward Block as the flower of all Talbot’s activities. Gold The next flame of the Dean's was the well-known Miss Esther Johnson, whom he fancifully called Stella. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches After this interruption my thoughts changed most fancifully. Arrows of Freethought The origin of the word is unknown, but it has been fancifully suggested that, while the other toes touch the ground in walking, the dew-claw merely brushes the dew from the grass. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" Conscious of this dominant impulse, he has fancifully described himself in a Platonic allegory. Thoughts on Art and Life Others were the fancifully painted boats of the wealthy, with comfortable cabins and sails of many colors richly decorated and embroidered. The Cat of Bubastes A Tale of Ancient Egypt The horse's saddle, bridle, and trappings are gorgeous with silver ornaments, without the least regard to usefulness, twenty-four inches square of leather fancifully worked and shaped being attached to each stirrup. Aztec Land The long rifle he carried had a fancifully carved stock, once the pride of a veteran Wyandotte chief. Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield Another guard chamber contains an immense collection of warlike instruments, fancifully arranged, and also the flag sent by the Duke of Wellington in commemoration of the battle of Waterloo. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad The army was fancifully called the “Legion of the United States,” and the camp was known as Legionville. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State Others, again, fancifully likened them to fishes in that sea of space in which we swim—fishes gigantic and terrifying, endowed with sense and will. The Children's Book of Stars The speaker fancifully considers this an appropriate spot in which to bury the scholar whose passionate eagerness of thought chafed continually against the bounds of custom and ignorance and human weakness. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning There is, child, but not as thou hast so fancifully thought a warning to thee. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls The cry of the bird was fancifully supposed to resemble his name. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia It is overshadowed by Tyvfjeld,—that is, "Thief Mountain,"—thus fancifully named because it robs the place of the little sunshine it might enjoy, were this high elevation not at all times intervening. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Hunger has been fancifully ascribed to the sides of the stomach rubbing against each other, and to the increased acidity of the gastric juice corroding the coats of it. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life During this period he brought out the series somewhat fancifully called Bells and Pomegranates. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning The boundary hedges are kept well trimmed; here and there survives a box border—product of many years of clipping—or even a yew-tree or two fancifully shaped out. Change in the Village These waxed cloths allow infinite scope for native imagination, only a small panel of formal design being obligatory, the remaining surface fancifully coloured at will in harmonious hues. Through the Malay Archipelago The communication next discussed some others amongst the many and diversified matters which Professor Smyth fancifully averred to be typified and symbolised in the Great Pyramid. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 I have treated my subject too fancifully, I fear. The Foot-path Way The elusive thought which he fancifully pursues from point to point in the surrounding landscape finds statement in lines 34-60. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning I wrote merely fancifully just now about bishops being burglars; but there is a story in New York, illustrating this, which really does in a sense attribute a burglary to a bishop. What I Saw in America Better far to be mistaken for a burglar than to be dragged forth lamentably yet fancifully attired as Himself at the Age of Three. The Life of the Party Charles Lamb appeared in the world of letters as "Elia," a fancifully adopted name of an Italian fellow clerk at the South Sea House, where Lamb Charles Lamb served his literary apprenticeship. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) It was long and low, with a high picturesque thatched roof, and the walls fancifully wrought in a pattern, making a not unpretty appearance. The Old Helmet, Volume II This Aunt Emmy seemed to be an empty-headed creature who thought that the most essential thing for a girl in life was to be fancifully dressed, and to attain a position in society. Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers Then—it must have been two o’clock—he heard the quick beat of running feet, and directly Gastong, as Jack had fancifully named his new acquaintance, came spurting into the cleared space. Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone The Plot Against Uncle Sam Among the branches of the corals, like birds among trees, floated many beautiful fish, radiant with metallic greens and crimsons, or fancifully banded with black and yellow stripes. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Sometimes she strove to picture precisely what it might be, and, fancifully, she set two men before her—Mark and "William Foster." Tongues of Conscience It was very substantially and neatly made, and had a border fancifully wrought all round it, a few inches in width. The Old Helmet, Volume II It was manned by thirteen masters of vessels in white uniforms, commanded by Commodore James Nicholson; and other beautiful barges, fancifully decorated, conveyed the Congressional committees and the heads of departments. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. The walls were divided up into panels by a series of fluted pilasters surmounted by elegantly and fancifully moulded capitals upon which rested the above-mentioned cornice. With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure A hedge, which was a marvel of trimness, surrounded the garden, ivy clung to the walls and gables, and fancifully clipped box and other evergreens made a modest greenery about it, winter though it was. That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 "Ah!" he exclaims, drawing out the fancifully carved stopper, "this phial is one of a set." The Diamond Coterie Babies, in their long white skirts, gazing about with the sweet solemnity of infancy, and older children fancifully dressed, with their tutors or nurses, crowded the pavements. Jack 1877 The screen is now made into a side-board, and is most fancifully and beautifully wrought with crests, ciphers, and cognisances, belonging to the Holts and many of the neighbouring families. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 When worn as a decoration embroidered upon the left breast of the coat, it is a red cross fancifully worked into some resemblance to the fleur-de-lis. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 Many a fancifully embroidered tale has been told and printed of the terrible "massacres" he perpetrated among the inhabitants of the South Seas. Concerning "Bully" Hayes From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 They are dressed much better and more picturesquely than the women, wearing bright silk turbans, sashes with gay fringe, and blouses often fancifully colored and secured by brass or mother-of-pearl buttons. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia Dr. Dudley’s boys marched over at eight o’clock, every one of them fancifully attired. A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall The ride of my Lady of Godiva is fancifully suggested by the Coventry version. A History of Nursery Rhymes Her silk . . . phantasies, i.e. which she had embroidered fancifully for him. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 In front of the duke's pavilion was hung his shield, and by its side stood his squire, fancifully dressed in rich colors. Under the Rose William never knew how to use words fancifully, therefore they used to gather together truthfully in his sermons, as if he had wove them in. A Circuit Rider's Wife A cap of shaggy brown fur, fancifully, but not ungracefully fashioned, covered his head, from beneath which, dropping, in natural clusters over his neck and shoulders, a cloud of raven hair escaped. Rookwood So fancifully did he express his want of consciousness concerning the appearance of a flower, whose name and rareness were all he knew of the matter. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Streets, fancifully designated, divided the settlement irregularly; but the tenements were now all deserted save one, where I found a whole family of "contrabands" or fugitive slaves. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War This regularity of arrangement, and the resemblance of the shots to beads, seems to have caused the contrivance to have been, somewhat fancifully, likened to a chaplet or rosary. Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. These having performed their part, two ladies, pretty fancifully dressed, as described in Captain Cook's Voyages, were introduced after a little ceremony. Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 These were notched, and had at one time been fancifully stained or colored by the Ayan Indians, the stains and funny little inscriptions being, for the most part, obliterated by the elements. A Woman who went to Alaska This might really explain, if a little fancifully, his coming back to the town in the character of a detective. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The discipline of the migrating cranes, the serried wedge of their ranks in flight, the good order of the resting flock, are often, and often fancifully, described. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield The other—she who had spoken—was arrayed, not richly, but almost so, or, I should rather say, fancifully, and with studied regard to effect. Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century According to the authentic Clavigero, in his history of Mexico, we find the Pythagorean transmigration carried on in the West, and not less fancifully than in the countries of the East. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 The women were somewhat fancifully, but not fantastically dressed. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar Here then was the danger; not such danger as he had fancifully imagined—the swimming of tigers from the mainland, or some noxious reptile; it was from man that the peril was to come. Middy and Ensign The fabric of Catharine's dress was fine, thick linen, covered with pictures, like a fancifully illustrated volume of Natural History. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 It was wholly cased with a rich marble of a pale yellow hue, beautifully panelled, having three windows opening upon a long portico with a southern aspect, set out with exotics in fancifully arranged groups. Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century “Now, gentlemen,” muttered he, fancifully addressing the wolves, “you may prowl about and howl till your throats are sore, but you don’t keep me five minutes longer from my rest—that you don’t.” The Boy Hunters I turn, in the next place, to what I have, perhaps too fancifully, called II. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. For then rose to its supreme height of self-revelation that still stranger something of which we have, perhaps fancifully, found hints before in this history. A Short History of England It has been suggested, fancifully, that if we consider the universe to be infinite, time is the same as eternity, and the past is perpetually present. Short Studies on Great Subjects It was in a heavy magnificent old style, of iron bars, fancifully wrought at top into flourishes and flowers. Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving This was rather perilous, as many of my auditors knew all the country around which I was thus fancifully populating; but I had no alternative. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure This law or reason he perhaps fancifully illustrated by attributing the different characters of flesh and sinew and bone to the different numerical proportions, in which they severally contain the different elements. A Short History of Greek Philosophy There is the personal giving, the real denial of ourselves for others, the doing of the duties which come to us rather than of those we have fancifully chosen. Girls and Women The houses are fancifully painted, and half hidden behind a privet hedge and a row of elms. Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London "It was in a heavy magnificent old style, of iron bars, fancifully wrought at top into flourishes and flowers." Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving Her arms were bare even to her shoulders, and hanging loosely to her feet was a robe of rich stuff presented by the Governor, Sir Thomas Dale, and fancifully embroidered by Pocahontas and her maidens. The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country As yet you have seen no house, and wonder whither the gravel-walks are to conduct you, winding fancifully and fantastically through the smooth-shaven lawn, bestrewed by a few large leaves of the horse-chestnut or sycamore. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Nina interpreted the stories about the crêche fancifully, and in spite of our derision she cherished a belief that Christ was born in Bohemia a short time before the Shimerdas left that country. My Ántonia Every niche of the walls was covered with carved oak; no wainscoted hall in the country could be more richly or more fancifully decorated. Cobwebs and Cables These fragments or "building stones" as they have been fancifully called, are all of a distant class of chemical compounds known to chemists as amino acids. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 Above every window hangs a bunch of fruit, seemingly suspended from the centre by ribbons fancifully braided about the ribs. Correggio A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation He touched the glove she had just drawn off—a light riding-gauntlet, fancifully cut, and embroidered with silk. Sword and Gown A Novel Among the Savior's parables is an impressive one, which we cannot help thinking perhaps fancifully was intended to illustrate the dealings of Providence in ordering the earthly destiny of humanity. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Mr. Malcolm, naturally, led them first to the market, where business called him, and here the girls were specially interested in the flowers, some of the booths being fancifully arranged with a bewildering display. All Aboard A Story for Girls It was a vignette, the hands being clasped rather fancifully at the back of the head. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke The floor was of stone, laid fancifully in colored mozaic; here and there, seemingly placed utterly at random, were smooth round holes in the stone blocks. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure He uses them for the suggestion of delicate allegories fancifully painted. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series At the hour of His manifestation, however, they all turn their gaze toward their own selves and are thus shut out from Him, inasmuch as they fancifully regard Him as one like unto themselves. Selections From the Writings of the Báb It has been suggested fancifully, that, if we consider the universe to be infinite, time is the same as eternity, and the past is perpetually present. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists Another variety of baskets of similar shape and size, and also fancifully ornamented, was obtained from the same Indians. Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428 On its back what at first appeared an elegantly dressed young man, a youth even fastidiously and fancifully accoutered, with riding boots that shone and a flaunting white plume and red lined cape floating wildly. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure Every line presents a picture, and each picture has the charm of a miniature fancifully drawn and brightly coloured on a missal-margin. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Nothing was more fancifully dignified, or more quaintly travestied by that light than the figures around it, busy and flitting about, and showing themselves in every novel variety of grouping and colouring. Queechy, Volume I The origin of this Caledonian air, though sometimes fancifully traced to an Irish harper and sometimes to a wandering piper of the Isle of Man, is probably lost in antiquity. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes It was drawn by six fine horses, fancifully caparisoned, ornamented with plumes of feathers, and led by grotesque masks. The Diary of an Ennuyée About this were ranged numerous fancifully painted statues of wood, grotesque and hideous, while a third figure, attired as were the aged priests without, lay prone upon the earth moaning as if in agony. Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France Luckily for Cassidy, his throat was not yet so dry but that he could amuse himself by fancifully measuring his thirst, first by pints, then by quarts. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 The balloon in which we ascended was a very plain, common-sense affair; but when aerial ascents were first undertaken the balloons were very fancifully decorated. Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy Curiously and fancifully did Cynewulf interweave into the lines of his verse the Runes which spelt his name; and it needed the skill of Kemble to explain it to us. Anglo-Saxon Literature As a rule, a certain number of syllables seem to have been regarded as proper elements for forming personal names, and to have been combined somewhat fancifully, without much regard to the resulting meaning. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain His old moccasins she replaced with new ones fancifully decorated with beads, and his much-worn duffel socks with warm ones made of rabbit skins. Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale Sir William Jones describes an oriental MS. in which the name of Mohammed was fancifully adorned with a garland of tulips and carnations, painted in the brightest colours. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 The bunches of seed-vessels, or "ash-keys," as they are fancifully called, were pickled in salt and water and eaten in old times. Miscellanea Loudon fancifully compares the leaf to a buckler, and the flower to a helmet. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition It was fancifully adorned with blue ribbons, and in the center of the tanned side there were drawn, in red pigment, the outlines of a very stolid and stoical-looking pappoose. Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors Genius, in its advancement beyond the intelligence of its own age, is but progressive; it is fancifully said to soar, but it only climbs. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions These Lazzi are in great danger of degenerating into puerile mimicry or gross buffoonery, unless fancifully conceived and vividly gesticulated. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 All their canoes are painted red, and fancifully decorated. Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific Therefore the whole mass has been divided, in the first place, into two supreme groups, fancifully termed kingdoms—the "animal kingdom" and the "vegetal kingdom." Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Her poetic brain saw England always as "husband of India"; while misguided or malicious meddlers—who would "make the Mother a widow"—were fancifully incorporated in the person of Jane. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India It was fancifully said of one of these lovers, in the style of the age, that, "His book was his bride, and his study his bride-chamber." Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions The plot is in perfect harmony with the genius of the author, and the characters he has invented—perfectly unconnected, and fancifully wild. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 At the sides there were gauzy draperies, too fancifully arranged to be rashly moved and too thin to serve the purpose of a curtain even against moonlight. The House that Jill Built after Jack's had proved a failure I have heard it fancifully traced to the Latin "cauda." Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851 A mantle or cloak of a dark mulberry colour, fancifully embroidered on the hem, was clasped upon one shoulder by a silver buckle. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 The nut itself is sometimes fancifully carved by the negroes, and is highly ornamental, being of a shining jet black, and susceptible of a very high polish. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. I suppose it might, fancifully, be called the beating of the Penny heart; it does pound through every associated stone; and I have a notion that when it stops we shall stop too. The Three Black Pennys A Novel Mrs. Maynard and Miss Hart were not so fancifully attired as the younger members of the party, but they wore pretty light gowns with more or less floral decoration. Marjorie's Maytime They were plainly distinguished by their dress, which consisted mainly of fancifully arranged feather belts of arara, mutum, and trumpeter plumes covering the shoulders and abdomen. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians The jesses were of crimson and yellow silk, its legs fancifully adorned with little bells fastened by rings of leather. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Complete suits of armour, exhibiting every known device of harness, and numerous weapons, fancifully arranged, decorated the spaces between the windows. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 It is expressed, no doubt, naïvely and fancifully, even playfully, without attempt at philosophical deductions. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria I was rather fancifully describing her wings, dear, which she takes off herself when she enters the nest, having no further use for them. Miss Elliot's Girls Stories of Beasts, Birds, and Butterflies The women wore no clothing whatever, their only ornamentation being the oval wooden piece in the lower lip and fancifully arranged designs on face, arms, and body. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians The tents of the warriors were fancifully decorated, every one having his shield newly emblazoned and hung out in front, where the pages and esquires watched, guarding vigilantly these sacred treasures. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 The grape arbor hugged the house, but beyond it was a pretty, shady, fancifully laid out garden, with shell-bordered walks, a grotto, a summer-house, and a gate opening into Nicholson Street. Audrey The dark-curtained forest seemed, fancifully, an enchantment through which we had gained to this remote smiling land, nearest of all to the blue sky. African Camp Fires He wore a deerskin jacket fancifully embroidered, blue canvas overalls, and gum boots to the knee, while, though all of them needed repair, the attire was picturesque, and showed its wearer's lean symmetry. Alton of Somasco His wild blood leaped in his veins, and the world was walking with him to a large prospect, as yet fancifully tricked out in mists and crowned with clouds. Flames I insist, he fancifully says, ‘on making “tuberose” a trisyllable always, as if it were a potato blossom and not a flower shaped like a tiny trumpet of ivory.’ Reviews The rooms are small, and the walls are wainscoted, and fancifully inlaid and painted. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 566, September 15, 1832 She wondered fancifully if she would have the effrontery to requite the girl in coin on the next pay-day; and she was filled with a sense of the goodness of humanity. Leonora The estates upon Edisto Island are of a more patrician character, and are occasionally surrounded by spacious flower-gardens and ornamental trees fancifully trimmed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 How many of their fancifully named dishes might be included under the common title, Fiasco! Some Private Views To put it fancifully, they burned their tower behind them, for to one of them, at least--to him who led--there was no going back. Jason Milton has fancifully described Adam expressing his want to the Infinite. True Woman, The A Series of Discourses The Landers saw this man at Shea, dressed in a fancifully made tobe, on which a great number of Arab characters were stitched. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa The colors are distributed rather fancifully: thus the fore and off legs of the horses are varied. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 The backs of the leather-bound volumes in the many book-cases gleamed also, but unaggressively, with the mellow sheen—as might fancifully be figured—of the ripe and tolerant wisdom their pages enshrined. Deadham Hard In the reign of Richard II., when it was first established, it was styled the Painted Tavern, from the circumstance of its outer walls being fancifully coloured and adorned with Bacchanalian devices. The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance Sometimes, as in the early Venetian pictures, it is hung with garlands of fruits and flowers, most fancifully disposed. Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts During the time that they halted at Dirkee, the women brought them dates, fancifully strung on rushes, in the shape of hearts, with much ingenuity, and a few pots of honey and fat. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa In June, 1914, he beat back into port in a fancifully decorated junk, minus one ear and two fingers, but plus a cargo of jingling genuine money. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919 Again, the plastered and fancifully coloured fronts of the dwelling-houses, their gay draperies, &c. but ill-assort with the heavy red-brick exteriors of our metropolis; although this contrast is to be sought elsewhere than in externals. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 552, June 16, 1832 There is also a hybrid case which depends on fanciful visions fancifully perceived. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development The Virgin is seated on a lofty throne, embowered by garlands of fruit, leaves, and flowers, and branches of coral, fancifully disposed as a sort of canopy over her head. Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts The sun shone out resplendently on the happy groups of fancifully dressed persons, whose showy, various-coloured garments, and sooty skin, contrasted with the picturesque and lovely appearance of the scenery, produced an unspeakably charming effect. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa About the same time various amateurs, well mounted on steeds gaily caparisoned, fancifully and tastefully attired, present themselves. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 352, January 17, 1829 The stern, fancifully ornamented, rises two or three stages above the deck, and is the seat of the helmsman. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827 How fancifully the poet tells of the origin of the flag in the first stanza! Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 To this the wives replied more sharply, "We are not females, but wives; you are in fancied and not in real love; you therefore talk fancifully." The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love We might fancifully call them a pair of native pearls or uncut gems, lovely by reason even of their sketchiness. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti It is turned up, at either end, like a gondola, and the sides and gunwales fancifully painted. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Or, it might more fancifully be compared to a joyous piece of music, played with wild vivacity, but upon a disordered instrument. House of the Seven Gables It was nothing but a head, the shoulders being fancifully draped, but the face was a peculiar one. The Shuttle The story of the forged check was fancifully embellished and ever more details were supplied at pleasure. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology My mind ran fancifully on the possibilities of its containing manuscript, on the difficulties in translation that might arise, whether we should find coins and models in it, and so forth. The War of the Worlds It was an elaborate little formality of a kind fancifully called "foreign," and evidently habitual to the performer. The Flirt She wore a red robe, flowing in closely fluted lines from under a fancifully embroidered cloak. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 Nina interpreted the stories about the creche fancifully, and in spite of our derision she cherished a belief that Christ was born in Bohemia a short time before the Shimerdas left that country. My Antonia The ear may be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, umbilicaria, on the side of the head, with its lobe or drop. Walden He loved her dearly, though perhaps rather ideally and fancifully than with the impassioned thoroughness of her feeling for him. Tess of the d'Urbervilles I may here mention that in the preceding notation I have marked the days and months exactly, but the years fancifully. Wylder's Hand A thousand and a thousand blessings were heaped upon the "heiress of Tregunter," for so they fancifully called her; a thousand times did they declare that the baby was the very image of her father. Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire When the whole is cold, put the apples with the syrup into glass dishes, and dispose the wreaths of lemon-peel fancifully about them. Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches This is aptly called "chaos" which we might fancifully suppose the leavings, "the fragments that were left," of the semicircular wall now visible, thrown up by transhuman builders, insurmountable barrier between heaven and earth. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" From the Flats—from the tenement houses—from the homes of the laborers, they come, these children, to this beautiful woman who loves them all and who calls them, somewhat fancifully, her "jewels of happiness." Helen of the Old House The most striking rocks have been fancifully named after the celebrated structures they resemble. The Roof of France The imagination is free to rebuild it fancifully in any part of the rich country which lies about Milan. Saint Augustin Nothing was more fancifully dignified or more quaintly travestied by that light than the figures around it, busy and flitting about and shewing themselves in every novel variety of grouping and colouring. Queechy After the captain's stock of sea-going hats and caps had disappeared he wore around his head a kerchief, twisted fancifully, like a turban. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale It is in this way that "The House of the Seven Gables" comes to be not merely fancifully a romance typical of Salem, but in the most essentially true way representative of it. A Study of Hawthorne She was a fine young woman, and had her long black hair fancifully braided in a knot on the top of her head, fastened with a silver ornament. Wanderings in South America On the smooth shaven lawns great trees were set like sentinels about the house; fancifully she thought of them as living vigilant keepers maintaining for centuries a perpetual guard—and smiled at her childish imagination. The Shadow of the East A fancifully coloured cover, worked with beads or porcupine quills, making a flashy, striking appearance, extended from withers to rump of the horse, while the riders evinced an admirable daring, worthy of Amazons. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Such an overpowering imagination must have created wildly, fancifully, had it not been guided by other qualities: by an observation almost as keen as that of Chaucer, and by the saving grace of humor. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived The affectionate animal seemed to mourn the loss of his master, and while sometimes she indulged herself in fancifully telling him her fears, she imagined she read in his countenance the faithfullest sympathy. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 Their hair was neatly collected and tied up in a knot; their bodies fancifully painted red, and the paint was scented with hayawa. Wanderings in South America Sixpences really, for the forty-eight hours that followed, seemed to abound in her life; she fancifully computed the number of them represented by such a period of "larks." What Maisie Knew It is generally fancifully carved, and, when sounded, makes a noise that perfectly resembles that made by a young one in calling its mother. The Young Trail Hunters Or, the Wild Riders of the Plains. The Veritable Adventures of Hal Hyde and Ned Brown, on Their Journey Across the Great Plains of the South-West The sexton, seeing their zeal, brought out to them a little cross, fancifully made of red alder-berries and pine. Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England And so, sitting on the stage in sight of the thrilled audience, Joe Strong and his guests, in the shape of pretty girls and manly young fellows fancifully attired, continued to eat the blazing food. Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater The Most Dangerous Performance on Record The women braid it up fancifully, something in the shape of Diana's head-dress in ancient pictures. Wanderings in South America They are sometimes fancifully called "the five gateways of knowledge"--the skin, the organ of touch; the tongue, of taste; the nose, of smell; the eye, of sight; and the ear, of hearing. A Practical Physiology They are fancifully fitted up, and supplied with reservoirs, fountains, and flower-trees. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 This makes a pretty dish, if fancifully moulded, for breakfast or supper, and should be garnished with parsley. The Book of Household Management They were dressed most fancifully; some with red coats, probably discarded by the Canadian police, and Faye said that almost everyone had on quantities of beads and feathers. Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 Tycho's star has achieved a romantic reputation by being fancifully identified with the ``Star of Bethlehem,'' said to have led the wondering Magi from their eastern deserts to the cradle-manger of the Savior in Palestine. Curiosities of the Sky The former are much more numerous, and have been compared somewhat fancifully to countless myriads of tiny fishes in a swiftly flowing stream. A Practical Physiology Nor again can we believe, as some have fancifully imagined, that the remembrance of any occurrence of which the effect has been entirely, or almost entirely mental, should be remembered by offspring with any definiteness. Life and Habit Dark beings fancifully seemed to creep upon him. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance These had been carefully destroyed, and pots of flowers were placed in the niches in their stead, besides their being ornamented by creeping plants of various kinds, fancifully twined around them. Peveril of the Peak The flooding gaslight from the fancifully wrought roof poured down upon the tranquil scene. The Gilded Age, Part 5. It rather resembled the Motombo in his cave, did that huge, black spider with just a little patch of white upon its head, or so I thought fancifully enough. Allan and the Holy Flower Here, amid these surroundings, with the rattle of typewriters and the tinkle of telephone-bells in his ears, it all seemed wholly improbable, fancifully unreal—like the workings of some turgid melodrama. Rainbow's End Hungry women, too lightly, dressily, and fancifully attired, preserving on their faces an expression of care-free merriment or haughty, offended unapproachability, strolled back and forth in pairs, with a walk already tired and dragging. Yama: the pit A large open fire-place, with fancifully carved framework and mantel-pieces, in Italian marble of polished blackness, upon which stood massive silver candlesticks, in chased work, denotes the ancient character of the mansion. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter Under it and in the centre is a square stone, planted upright and fancifully carved, to represent the omphalic region of the human frame. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 But when I speak of Causes and Effects, I speak of the obvious and important agency of one fact upon another, and not of remote and fancifully infinitesimal influences. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo Pascal was then aged thirty-nine—an age you may remember fancifully noted as fatal to genius. Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays "What is the meaning of all these bits of bamboo and these little canes, so fancifully arranged around the picture?" The Pedler of Dust Sticks "Afterward he set out for a stroll with, as Kate on one occasion had fancifully told him, her spirit leaning upon his arm." Rolling Stones Surely, of the third wall thus fancifully erected, our actors should, by ridicule or reason, be withheld from knocking their heads against the stucco. Rejected Addresses She saw, fancifully, the circles widen in the pool of peace, but she saw also the things that had been hidden in the pool. The Garden of Allah "He dresses somewhat fancifully, and they could not understand that any one should wear garments different from their own." John Bull on the Guadalquivir Thus fancifully they conversed till the interview concluded. The Hand of Ethelberta If so, the "hall" in front would be the structure to which has been fancifully given the name of "the concert-hall." A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): a contribution to the history of India But the trilithon stood up white as ever; and, crossing the intervening sward, the steward fancifully placed his mouth against the stone. A Changed Man; and other tales One of the shipmasters exhibited to his friends a pair of native shoes fancifully gilded. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Embarrassed with these reflections, and himself of a nature fancifully, almost fastidiously, delicate, he could only in reply stammer forth an acknowledgement of his companion's goodness, and his own gratitude. Redgauntlet As she stood with her delicate hands clasped above the fancifully carved grotesques upon the chair-back, her beauty shone like a lamp against the smoke-stained walls. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields It was in a heavy, magnificent old style, of iron bars fancifully wrought at top into flourishes and flowers. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon They supported an archwork of fancifully carven wood, which curved gently outward to the center of the ceiling, forming, by conjunction with a similar, opposite curve, a pointed arch. The Yellow Claw We may fancifully see an adaptation to the capture of insects—to the dancing of a gnat's foot on the sensitive surface. Darwin and Modern Science It was broad day; and the house was nearly filled with young females, fancifully decorated with flowers, who gazed upon me as I rose with faces in which childish delight and curiosity were vividly portrayed. Typee But what capped the climax of the popular gladness was to see a fancifully shaped animal, covered with foam and dust, appear behind the hero, and stumble down the station stairs. Tartarin of Tarascon It was in a heavy, magnificent old style, of iron bars, fancifully wrought at top into flourishes and flowers. Old Christmas Cushions, most fancifully embroidered, were strewn about the floor, and the bed coverlet was a piece of heavy Chinese tapestry. The Yellow Claw He was dressed fancifully and with taste; he played with feeling. The Schoolmistress, and other stories Elizabeth dressed elaborately and fancifully in dress as well as in head apparel. Our Legal Heritage He had fancifully blended his life with the life of the crags; he had deliberately planted himself there. The Magic Skin Her spurs, that he had stupidly neglected to remove, consisted of silver frames and gold chains, and the rowels, large as silver dollars, were fancifully engraved. Riders of the Purple Sage His striking figure, the long black hair, and the fancifully embroidered costume he wore contrasted strangely with Betty's slender, graceful form and pretty gray dress. Betty Zane He was rather fancifully dressed, and always falling into such graceful, languishing attitudes as he thought would be admired by the fair sex, whose devoted slave he was. Captain Fracasse I fancifully added that we too should peradventure be gilded by the legend, should be pointed at for having listened, for having actually heard. The Coxon Fund At last he came to the shallow veranda with its four sightless windows backed by fancifully carven screens. Fire-Tongue |
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