McAllen broke in protestingly two or three times, then let Barney conclude his account of the steps he had taken to verify his farfetched hunch on the pier without further comment.
"Gone Fishing"
James H. Schmitz
"No epithet was too outrageous, no charge was too farfetched, no manipulation or interpretation of evidence was too daring to enter into his ferocious indictment.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
But it would be too farfetched to speculate that other treasure hunters had found the location and were diving right at this time.
"The Wailing Octopus"
Harold Leland Goodwin