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It is amazing how it calls forth the demons on so many who fancie themselves as religious.

Bad Day for Darwin Haters - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

And therefore without replications, lets hear your Ketch, Scholer, which I hope will be a good one, for you are both Musical, and have a good fancie to boot.

The Compleat Angler 2007

When Mamma gone, I sneeks in, take mitties off, an you runn up and down dem dere fancie shmancie hardedwooded floors an u skratches em up good!

I DO NOT LIKE MY MITTENS - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

Buffalmaco with everie circumstance: which made him thinke everie day a yeare, untill he might in the fooling of Mayster Doctoar, according to his owne fancie.

The Decameron 2004

Francesca, in freeing her selfe from them whom she could not fancie, was generally commended: as also on the contrary, the bold presumption of the two amorous suiters, was reputed not to be love, but meerely folly.

The Decameron 2004

And, that it may appeare that this is no vaine fancie nor deuise of mine, it may please your

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

These men avoided outright commit - ment to the “fancie” that the soul is, or possesses, harmony; claims that music could create ecstasy were qualified.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas GRETCHEN LUDKE FINNEY 1968

I fancie I may hear to-day from our friends in the north of England, for I hope they had some days ago a way of sending directly.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

Such names as they doe fancie most, and best to think upon.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

_Master Tusser_: whose workes may, in my fancie, without any presumption, compare with any, either _Varro_, _Columella_, or

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various