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fantasticalness

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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 N. Parker Willis

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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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 W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

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 Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) La Fayette

It is, however, a little earlier in time, before fantasticalness came into fashion, and in spirit is of the nobler age.

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