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  • Sometimes Hollister wondered if he himself were not overfanciful, too sensitive to moods and impressions.

    The Hidden Places Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • It is not, perhaps, overfanciful to see something of the lavish richness, the opulent homeliness, of the earlier period typified in the varied buildings, courts, and gateways of the Tudor portion of the

    Hampton Court Walter Jerrold 1897

  • And, without being overfanciful, it may be confidently asserted that, for some weeks now, ever since indeed the specialists -- summoned in consultation at the good Lovegroves 'and the

    The Far Horizon Lucas Malet 1891

  • It is rich, exuberant, and, sometimes overfanciful, running away into excesses of allusion or following the lead of a chance pun so as sometimes to lay itself open to the charge of pedantry and bad taste.

    Initial Studies in American Letters 1886

  • Occasionally, he’d see gleaming points of yellow amid the moss-draped trees, but he reminded himself that these waters were filled with animals and he was being overfanciful.

    Magnolia Moon JoAnn Ross 2003

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