What is "fanciful"

Usage examples of "fanciful".

There are dozens of Web sites devoted to the manuscript, from the dense and scholarly to the New Agey and fanciful.

Dip in half-set aspic the white of egg, poached and cut in fanciful shapes, and small gherkins cut in thin slices, and decorate the bottom and sides of a charlotte or cylindrical mould standing in ice water.

Your Borderer is not used to fanciful titles, or ones that come strangely to the tongue.

Mr Buskin would look if he were now going through all these fanciful gesticulations in his walking dress.

Those pure elements and primitive essences of created nature offered to the first men, still in a close communication with the Deity, not a likeness of resemblance, nor a mere fanciful image or a poetical figure, but a natural and true symbol of Divine power.

No fanciful wreath of tube-roses was about her head now, no strange garment of red and gold enveloped her now.

It was a girlhe had known that, of course, from the toucha Farer, stark naked except for body-paint laid on in fanciful loops and spirals and her hair, which hung over her shoulders like a cloak.

Myriad white beeswax candles in branched candelabra reflected in fanciful epergnes of crystal or silvered basketwork, golden salvers lifted on pedestals and filled with sweetmeats or condiments, sets of silver spice-casters elaborately gadrooned, their fretted lids decorated with intricately pierced patterns, crystal cruets of herbal vinegars and oils, porcelain mustard pots with a blue underglaze motif of starfish, oval dish-supports with heating-lamps underneath, mirrored plateaux and low clusters of realistic flowers and leaves made from silk.

Cyrus Harding listened to the enthusiastic Pencroft developing his fanciful projects.

The squire eyed this fanciful exhibition with great interest and delight, and gave me a full account of its origin, which he traced to the times when the Romans held possession of the island, plainly proving that this was a lineal descendant of the sword dance of the ancients.

You may imagine his alarm, and for a reason less fanciful than that his woods may be infested with liquorish beasts.

From there it went on to enumerate the even more fanciful covenants assumed by Isaiah Thoat, who personally undertook to eschew such practices as nudism, consorting with astrologers, or dancing in a ballet, on down to receiving stolen goods or being charged with drunkenness, upon the least of which breaches the whole deal was off.

I could really believe some of the fanciful stories he told me of piskies and witches.

It was only a day and a night since the mystical presence manifested itself in the alley as an innocuous, vapory child of willowy, fanciful smoke.

The love of dancing was instinctive with her, and this, unknown to Hugh, her mother cultivated assiduously, fostering in her everything that was imaginative and delicately fanciful.