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1 No graceful little adornment, no fanciful little device, however trivial, anywhere expressed her influence.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
2 Now, Mrs. Sparsit was not a poetical woman; but she took an idea in the nature of an allegorical fancy, into her head.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
3 She fancied, however, that her request had been complied with, and that the pen she could not have held was in her hand.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
4 Bounderby and Gradgrind now walked, was a triumph of fact; it had no greater taint of fancy in it than Mrs. Gradgrind herself.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
5 As the shining stars were to the heavy candle in the window, so was Rachael, in the rugged fancy of this man, to the common experiences of his life.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
6 By nonsense he meant fancy; and truly it is probable she was as free from any alloy of that nature, as any human being not arrived at the perfection of an absolute idiot, ever was.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
7 One might have fancied he had talked it off; and that what was left, all standing up in disorder, was in that condition from being constantly blown about by his windy boastfulness.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
8 Cultivate in them, while there is yet time, the utmost graces of the fancies and affections, to adorn their lives so much in need of ornament; or, in the day of your triumph, when romance is utterly driven out of their souls, and they and a bare existence stand face to face, Reality will take a wolfish turn, and make an end of you.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI