But, while Washington left her fancy-free, Morris won her heart and hand.

In maiden meditation, fancy-free.

He believed she spoke lightly, girlishly, to tease himthat she was only a gay-hearted girl, fancy-free and just a little proud of her conquest over even him.

" Truly they were a family fine enough, and fancy-free enough to have fine wishes, yet happy enough where they were, to have had no wish but to live there always.

The boys in the street might wander fancy-free, and fire their Chinese crackers as they listed; but for him this was a solemn occasion, and he invited his hearers to a Stoic feast of Medford crackers and water, to a philosophic banquet of metaphors and metaphysics.

[Fr.]; fresh- pluckt from bowers of never-failing thought [O. Meredith]; go speed the stars of Thought [Emerson]; in maiden meditation fancy-free

See Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Sc. 2. "And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.

If Lord Hartfield were fancy-free he ought to fall in love with her, could they but meet.

"If I thought that you cared for Mr. Ferrars yourself I should never have mentioned this to you at all; but you are so plainly fancy-free that surely it won't hurt you to stand aside and let Mary have her chance.

A long line of these, coeval with the Crucifixion, have passed on in maiden meditation, and so were fancy-free from all of mortal mould.

Even the gloves are not fancy-free, but are very apt to bring with them the slang of the ring and the beastly associations of professional pugilism.

"Oh, because I choose to be fancy-free.

R645370. Oklahoma: foot-loose and fancy-free.

R645370. Oklahoma: foot-loose and fancy-free.

But all this moves not Silvia, nymph of the woods and of the chase, and, if she is indeed as fancy-free as she would have us believe, her lover may even console himself with the reflection that

Her being represented as a follower of Diana implies no more than that she is fancy-free, and so in a sense under the protection of the virgin goddess.