"Fancify" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... followed soon after. Emile de Girardin gave a banquet in his honour. His description of it, which he declares to be strictly prosaic, sounds a little Oriental, but not inappropriately so. "No man unacquainted with my determination never to embellish or fancify such accounts, could believe in the description I shall let off when we meet of dining at Emile Girardin's—of the three gorgeous drawing rooms with ten thousand wax candles in golden sconces, terminating in a dining-room ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster |
