Fancifully Sentence Examples

As the waves of the sea are fancifully compared to horses, so a field of corn, waving in the breeze, may be said to represent the wedding of the sea-god and the corn-goddess.

To the north-west lies the Fryksdal or valley of the Nors River, containing three beautiful lakes and fancifully named the "Swedish Switzerland."

A group of these columns, from their arrangement, have been fancifully named the "Giant's Organ."

Finally, inference is an extension, not of ideas, but of beliefs, at first about existing things, afterwards about ideas, and even about words; about anything in short about which we think, in what is too fancifully called " the universe of discourse."

Fancifully shaped seals also occur, but they are comparatively rare.

Nant Colwyn is on the road from Carnarvon to Beddgelert, beyond Llyn y gader (gadair), "chair pool," and what tourists have fancifully called Pitt's head, a roadside rock resembling, or thought to resemble, the great statesman's profile.

It lies in the midst of a remarkable volcanic district generally known as the Hot Spring district, or fancifully as the Wonderland, which covers an area of 660 sq.

The ear may be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, Umbilicaria, on the side of the head, with its lobe or drop.

Edgy and slightly eclectic, these dresses are fancifully whimsical and they perfectly capture the magic that is prom night.