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  • Baconian authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, for what Bacon had was fancy, not imagination, and Fancy is the mother of Allegory, Imagination is the mother of Drama.

    Old Familiar Faces Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • But the Greeks call it Fancy; which signifies Apparence, and is as proper to one sense, as to another.

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • Chocolates once lovingly assembled in "Fancy Boxes" by industrious damsels and described by critics as "the most exquisite ever to come under our notice" are now deprived of any lingering elegance by the American manufacturer of Velveeta Cheese, Miracle Whip and a "boxed macaroni and cheese dinner."

    Deborah Cadbury's "The Chocolate Wars," reviewed by Carolyn See Carolyn See 2010

  • The example in Fancy Form Design uses a fieldset with the legend “Change Password” and fields labeled “Current Password” and “New Password.”

    Web Teacher › Style Fieldsets like a Pro 2009

  • The Nuthin Fancy tour became the stuff of legend, with the band members themselves unofficially naming it the “Torture Tour”.

    LYNYRD SKYNYRD BIOGRAPHY « Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie 2010

  • Chocolates once lovingly assembled in "Fancy Boxes" by industrious damsels and described by critics as "the most exquisite ever to come under our notice" are now deprived of any lingering elegance by the American manufacturer of Velveeta Cheese, Miracle Whip and a "boxed macaroni and cheese dinner."

    Deborah Cadbury's "The Chocolate Wars," reviewed by Carolyn See Carolyn See 2010

  • The Nuthin Fancy tour became the stuff of legend, with the band members themselves unofficially naming it the “Torture Tour”.

    June « 2010 « Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie 2010

  • Regina, your story reminded me of the picturebook "Just Plain Fancy" by Patrica Polacco.

    Peacock Egg Hatching regina doman 2007

  • Jessica Simpson has just launched a perfume called Fancy Love that was inspired by her love for Tony Romo.

    Jessica Simpson Knackers Her Voice, Ears Rejoice 2009

  • Miss Fancy is finally getting the hair at age two .. and we never did the sticky bow thing.

    Rock, Rock, Rock ‘N Roll Nursery | Her Bad Mother 2006

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