fancy

Derek fancies himself as a ladies' man, but he spends too much time admiring himself in the mirror for my liking.

His point was that with cheap lunar transportation, there was no predicting what might catch people's fancies.

Said to myself, if time can turn the clock back, now I must be an amazing grace, fancies of men of letters can be your woman.

He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal, of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts.

What happens when the president of the United States fancies going out for a meal?

When a man fancies a woman, he also cares about her soul, lying to himself that he has fallen in love with her soul.

Cookery was one of his chief fancies.

He fancies how wonderful it would be if he could remain young forever like those immortals .

If you take these fancies to be real enough to engage you, you will be led farther and farther away from tranquility. --Zen master.

I would not talk about it, if it were not . Why should I engage in fancies ?

Each day, her head almost turned by developments, her fancies of what her fortune must be, with ample money, grew and multiplied.

Science loves eccentricities, leaps and bounds, trials of strength, fancies, if I may be allowed so to term them.

Only the ashes of all her fine fancies were remaining--ashes still concealing, nevertheless, a few red embers of hope.

While he was thus criticizing, after his own fancies, the form which Nature had given him, the huntsman and hounds drew that way.

Malcolm really fancies himself in his new outfit.

You're at a party and see a handsome guy. He fancies you, but you talk him into going home with your friend. That's a Sales Rep.

My fancies are fire flies , ---- Specks of living light twinkling in the dark .

In the midst of these whimsical fancies she heard a new strange sound among the leaves.

Freddie has even been known to turn around on Daisy's back mid-trot when he fancies a change of scene.

Altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.

Jules Verne had lived to see many of his fancies come true.

He could walk up and down, free from distracting fancies, praying for himself and for them.

It looks like one of the crude fancies of childhood, instantly corrected by a word from any grown person.

As someone who fancies himself a powerful intellectual, Mr. Gingrich often seems unable to resist a new idea.

The point of a gap year is that it should be the time when the school leaver gets to do the thing that he or she fancies.

Of course, this will require that you are completely honest with yourself to avoid "investing" money on short-lived whims or fancies.

One lad fancies himself as a boxer and the staff are proud to reveal that a former student is now at the jockey school at Newmarket.

Don't grudge Anne Cordelia her fancies, Diana. I'm always sorry for children who don't spend a few years in fairyland.

A move from PSG could also be in the offing but, for now, the Old Lady fancies its chances.

The difference between having seen it or not lies in whether our the fancies have on them are tested.

And now that Alex Song fancies himself as an attacking midfielder, they could also use an anchor man to sit in front of the back four.

The girl looked long at the Star, and she had strange fancies, and imagined that he was her lover.

I have learned enough to cure me of my old fancies.

But you, sir, can raise up dreams with your music, and drive all such horrid fancies away!

He also fancies himself a singer; after several of his recent fights, he has even given concerts.

The latest is Manuel Valls, a young deputy and mayor of Evry, near Paris, who fancies himself as a presidential candidate in 2012.

She always views this world from a realistic perspective, never having any kind of irrational fancies.

The merciless daylight reaches every corner of the world, leaving no darkness that elicits doubts, fancies, and hopes.

Nature's wealth at once has its bounds and is easy to procure; but the wealth of vain fancies recedes to an infinite distance.

When spring comes within, many-coloured short-lived fancies are born and flit about in the mind, ordinarily unnoticed.

As dreams are the fancies of those thatsleep, so fancies are but the dreams of those that awake.

Buffett will spend several hours discussing just about anything the winning bidder fancies.

It is not all on the same plane; it easily passes from ideas to myths and fancies, from facts to figures of speech.

You have a marked fondness for all pleasures of the senses, but, of course, do not give yourself lightly to mere passing fancies.

Two newish discoveries in particular tickle commercial fancies.

We never cherish any unrealistic fancies about those desperate criminals.

What I detest is that she always fancies me as her .

A lot of people are fixated on this idea that he fancies Watson for something beyond a platonic friendship, but it isn't.

Woman! , when I behold thee flippant, vain, Inconstant, childish, proud, and full of fancies.

Nana in those days was subject to the fancies a sentimental girl will indulge in .

This has suggested such fancies as that the beating of a butterfly's wings might change the world's weather pattern!

The individual, in effect, is financing the provision of capital for the government to invest in whatever it fancies.

For all his flaws, a country fancies Maradona's saving grace is that he still honestly would.

He fancies himself as the fastest swimmer.

"I sometimes have sick fancies, " she went on.

It's absurd to be having such fancies.

Eg. She rather fancies herself as a singer.

fancies, as a kind of artificial good sense, to supply the defects of reason. Without which the.

In my hammock at night, I dreamed of Mr Kipling French Fancies and stodgy flapjacks.

Saw the competitor goes on stage, fertile spunks up immediately fancies pass the Brooks pitching three points.

Others are nothing more than the fancies of their writers.

Folk arts from anywhere could easily catch my fancies.

Could be strategy. Maybe he fancies you.

But how many 'perfect' fancies had been always put on a 'visible' place for ever?

Krishnamurti: Education is to make you sensitive not only to your own particular desires, fancies and troubles but also to those of others.

DB: It's weird emotions when it goes to penalty kicks because it literally is whatever player fancies it on the day.

'Twas so; But this, all pleasures fancies be.

Is fancies spring, but sorrows fall.

According to Annabel, Tom wants to dump Sarah because he really fancies Emma.

Mum: Come on. Why don't we see if Mark fancies gherkin.

Fancies flitted through my mind.

But shatters never let off fancies.

Tony says he fancies that girl in the read dress.

I'm not prone to extravagant fancies.

I will find joy in humouring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers.

With summer upon us, how many green vacationers' fancies will turn to thoughts of nudism?

He fancies she likes him.

My cousin fancies you are an idiot.

One fancies he hears a mole crying, "I pity them with their sun! "

Do you really care for me enough, then to banish those chill fancies?

to fancy someone (British English) = to find someone attractive : "My friend fancies you! "

I am not one who is prone to make violent fancies, and consequently, my friendship is the more to be depended on.

How do you tell if she fancies you?

For example, for painting the color and shape of Apple have a sense of beauty, it can be used as "fancies" the emotional experience.

He fancies you! Have you seen the way he looks at you?

When I'm alone with my fancies I'll be with you Weaving romances Making believe they're true

in the cradle of our wayward fancies, and lulled into security by the roar of the universe

He told himself not to close his eyes again, nor give way to foolish fancies;

Field Practice of Sedimentary Fancies

Seek the good of other men, but be not in bondage to their faces, or fancies;

his varied fancies into facts. He was greatly given to self

Men and women and noxious fancies characterize modern novels, of which internet-based the most conspicuous. (UTOYXC)

The fancies of a poet

The broadcasting and the drama are my fancies

One Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is Disembarking