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Despite suffering a series of rocky results since winning the International Championship in the autumn, Trump is fancying his chances of landing a first world title this year.

From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2013

I don't see what, father," Mary said, after thinking for some time, "unless she is fancying since that it was this man who did it.

From The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

The speaker is fancying what others will think of his remarks, instead of fixing his mind entirely on the subject of discourse.

From The Elements of Character by Chandler, Mary G.

“He is fancying himself a Spartan hero, and looking forward to laurels and history,” one of his neighbours remarked.

From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

For a man is often innocent of love-making at the very moment a woman is fancying herself violently in love with him, and fancying, moreover, that he is in love with her.

From Crowded Out! and Other Sketches by Harrison, S. Frances (Susie Frances)