Some of his oppressions were of a Fantasticality bordering on comic opera: travellers had to give up their provisions at the frontier and eat the official bread of Monaco; ships entering the port were confiscated if they had brought more loaves than sufficed them for their voyage thither; no man might cut his own wood without leave of the police, or prune his trees, or till his land, or irrigate it; the birth and death of every animal must be publicly registered, with the payment of a given tax, and nobody could go out after ten at night without carrying a taxed lantern.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
"Yes," replied the dead voice of the woman without an inflection to suggest that she felt the Fantasticality of her statement.
"The Club of Queer Trades"
G. K. Chesterton
It would be funny if Carvalho's Fantasticality was crowned with success!
"The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters"
George Sand, Gustave Flaubert Translated by A.L. McKensie