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Definition of Fancying
1. fancy [v] - See also: fancy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fancying
Literary usage of Fancying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... s'Ht for at all if bo had immediately attacked them ; for while fancying
themselves a match for him, they would at onco ..."
2. History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of the Ancient by William Hickling Prescott (1874)
"... pled on one another, fancying it .was the enemy in their rear.28 The Spaniards
and ... fancying ..."
3. Kate Beaumont by John William De Forest (1872)
"... sympathetic •woman's heart she could not find the hardness to forbid it.
sighed Kate, wearied of the subject of marriage, or fancying that she was so. ..."
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