Citations:fancy


 * c. 1595,, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I, Scene 1,
 * For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself
 * To fit your fancies to your father’s will;


 * c. 1596–1599,, , Act III, Scene 2,
 * [He] sung those tunes to the overscutch’d huswifes that he heard the carmen whistle, and sware they were his fancies or his good-nights.


 * c. 1605,, , Act III, Scene 2,
 * How now, my lord! why do you keep alone,
 * Of sorriest fancies your companions making,
 * Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
 * With them they think on?


 * 1650,, Anthropometamorphosis: Man Transform’d, 2nd edition, London, 1653, Epistle Dedicatory, pp. 2-3,
 * When you have well viewed the Scenes and Devillish shapes of this Practicall Metamorphosis, and scan’d them in your serious thoughts, you will wonder at their audacious phant’sies, who seeme to hold Specificall deformities, or that any part can seeme unhandsome in their Eyes, which hath appeared good and beautifull unto their Maker


 * 1674,, , Book 5, lines 100-103,
 * But know that in the soul
 * Are many lesser faculties, that serve
 * Reason as chief; among these Fancy next
 * Her office holds


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Come, then, neighbour Pliable, let us turn again, and go home without him; there is a company of these crazy-headed coxcombs, that, when they take a fancy by the end, are wiser in their own eyes than seven men that can render a reason. [Prov. 26:16]


 * 1693,, , 13th edition, London, 1764, §148, p. 222,
 * I have always had a Fancy, that Learning might be made a Play and Recreation to Children


 * 18th century, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving Land, cited in, , 1755,
 * London-pride is a pretty fancy, and does well for borders.


 * 1830,, “Review of Life of , D.D. by J.H. Monk, D.D.” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 28, No. 171, September 1830, p. 446, footnote,
 * at a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the Fancy, on a copy occurring, not one of the company but ourself knew what the mystical title-page meant.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * It is also a fact, that Scrooge had seen it, night and morning, during his whole residence in that place; also that Scrooge had as little of what is called fancy about him as any man in the city of London, even including — which is a bold word — the corporation, aldermen, and livery.


 * 1861,, “A New Counterblast” in Atlantic Monthly, December 1861, p. 700,
 * Rustic females who habitually chew even pitch or spruce-gum are rendered thereby so repulsive that the fancy refuses to pursue the horror farther and imagine it tobacco


 * ibid. page 53:
 * ‘Sales,’ said Sarah briefly. ‘If someone’s selling up their bits and pieces, old Mr P. goes round in the dog-cart with William Stubbs and buys up anything that takes his fancy.’
 * ‘Sales,’ said Sarah briefly. ‘If someone’s selling up their bits and pieces, old Mr P. goes round in the dog-cart with William Stubbs and buys up anything that takes his fancy.’


 * 1970, Marta Weigle, Follow my fancy: the book of jacks and jack games (page 22)
 * When you have mastered plainsies, the regular jack game, and have learned all the rules, you will be ready to use this part of the book. A fancy is a variation of plainsies which usually requires more skill than plainsies does.


 * 1973, American Pigeon Journal (page 159)
 * I would recommend this little book very highly to anyone who fancies pigeons, novices and veterans alike.


 * 2002, Elizabeth Dana Jaffe, Sherry L. Field, Linda D. Labbo, Jacks (page 26)
 * When you get good at jacks, try adding a fancy. A fancy is an extra round at the end of a game. It makes the game a little harder. Jack Be Nimble, Around the World, or Black Widow are some fancies.