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"I was fancying," he continued, "that the nymph of Vaux—" "Ah, beautiful!" cried Loret.

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre

She was fancying herself in the dusky drawing-room at Mordred, after dinner, hearing him talk.

From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

I was fancying that I should hear from you to-day; for what think you has happened?

From Sybil, or the Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Thank God for that to the last: but would God I had died of that cholera! that I had never come here, conceited fool that I was, fancying that it was possible, after having once—No!

From Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Kingsley, Charles

When I first saw him, he was fancying how the presence of Miss Dorothy would gladden his father's heart at that season.

From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love