The bones were all knotted and bent and screwed into the most fantastic shapes.

The old knightly chivalry was a beautiful thing in its way, and it gave an uplift to an age which would have been frankly brutal without it: yet it had its well-spring in what appeals to us now as being a rather fantastic sentiment.

Why, the thing's fantastic, absurd, and yet it's terrible!

Before starting I ventured one more remonstrance, for I was filled with misgivings, and the more I saw of this girl the more fantastic and unnatural this affair seemed.

But I qualified that by repeating that for many years to come it would be an enterprise only for quite fantastic daring and skill.

I feel as if out of the world, in this strange, fantastic, yet beautiful old city.

The fantastic Byzantine architecture of many of the churches and towers, gives the city a peculiar oriental appearance; it seems to have been transported from the hills of Syria.

Instead of seeking to set forth vast subjects with the equality of mediocrity, like the Gaddi, or to invent architectonic compositions embracing the whole culture of their age, like the Lorenzetti, the painters were now bent upon realising some special quality of beauty, expressing some fantastic motive, or solving some technical problem of peculiar difficulty.

Landscape occupies the main part of his compositions, made up by a strange amalgam of the most eccentric detailsrocks toppling over blue bays, sea-caverns, and fantastic mountain ranges.

Amid this fantastic labyrinth of twisted forms we find medallions painted in chiaroscuro with subjects taken chiefly from Ovidian and Dantesque mythology.

To my astonishment, I found that the great majority of the men of science to whom I first applied protested that mental imagery was unknown to them, and they looked on me as fanciful and fantastic in supposing that the words "mental imagery" really expressed what I believed everybody supposed them to mean.

The doll serves as a kind of skeleton for the child to clothe with fantastic attributes, and the less individuality the doll has, the more it is appreciated by the child, who can the better utilise it as a lay figure in many different characters.

These strange "visions," for such they must be called, are extremely vivid in some cases, but are almost incredible to the vast majority of mankind, who would set them down as fantastic nonsense; nevertheless, they are familiar parts of the mental furniture of the rest, in whose imaginations they have been unconsciously formed, and where they remain unmodified and unmodifiable by teaching.

He does not affect to think that the world calls for a full-length statue of such a fantastic hero; but he seems to claim leave to execute a statuette in terracotta for a cabinet of curiosities.

This parodyand it is certainly neither pointless nor unskilfulchiefly deals with the poet's fantastic prologue.

" A mass of snowy blossom it was against the April sky, and Lewisham, straggling for itit was by no means the most accessiblesaw with fantastic satisfaction a lengthy scratch flash white on his hand, and turn to red.

He felt a fantastic desire to take her in his arms and kiss her, and overcame the madness by an effort.

Neither, one can surmise, did those gentlemen sufficiently appreciate his passion for amassing amazing waistcoats, of which some seven hundred were found in his wardrobe at his lamented death; or strange and beautiful walking sticks, a like prodigious collection of which were among the fantastic assets which represented his originally large personal fortune on the winding up of his earthly affairs.

Sometimes he wears one as we lunch together, and on such occasions we always drink in silence to the memory of his fantastic lordship.

Strange, fantastic women with fiery imagination and cold temperaments!

Tell me," I said, "do you not think me a fantastic kind of man, full of whims and fancies?" "Oh, no, not fantastic; sometimes I think you a little strange, but then I say to myself that men like you are bound to be different from others.

Tell me," I said, "do you not think me a fantastic kind of man, full of whims and fancies?" "Oh, no, not fantastic; sometimes I think you a little strange, but then I say to myself that men like you are bound to be different from others.

When the great doors of the Legation had shut upon the two young men, they found themselves under the marquise where Beaufort's sleigha very elaborate and fantastic affairawaited them.

The fantastic city; memoirs of the social and romantic life of old San Francisco.

Fantastic art, dada, surrealism.