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The fantasticalness of your heart was such, that you advanced towards me in proportion as you saw I retreated from you.

From The Princess of Cleves by La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne)

You will scarce get through without being surprised into a tear; but, if affectation and fantasticalness in such a place do not more grieve than amuse you, you will much oftener smile.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker

But even their comedies are, most of them, disturbed by the fantasticalness, or gross caricature, of the persons or incidents.

From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

But this fantasticalness relates more to propriety of speech, than reality of ideas.

From An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by Locke, John

Rather too long for my chapter, but I quote it for the sake of the last four lines, characteristic of that period, the age of conceits, of the love of fantasticalness, of Donne, Crashaw, Vaughan.

From A Traveller in Little Things by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)