With the fancifulness of her kind, she finally took it into her head that she must consult a doctor in New York.
"The Burial of the Guns"
Thomas Nelson Page
In order, then, that playfulness may not terminate in arbitrary fancifulness and in building up an imaginary world alongside the world of actual things, it is necessary that the play attitude should gradually pass into a work attitude.
"How We Think"
John Dewey
Those happy eyes were so strong in their wistfulness, so grave in their happiness, that they forbade the charge of folly or fancifulness; nay, they were looking at something which the colonel wished he could himself see, if the sight brought such contentment.
"A Red Wallflower"
Susan Warner