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"Indefensible," fumed Time magazine's Richard Corliss, who like many critics had been fancying The Social Network's chances.

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2011

All those years in India I had been fancying our meeting.

From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)

The student also saw the instrument that had been bellowing forth those infernal tones, which he had been fancying he had heard somewhere before.

From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne

Lady Cumnor was out of health; but not so ill as she had been fancying herself during all those days when the people about her dared not send for the doctor.

From Wives and Daughters by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

She was so different from what he had been fancying her!

From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George