Sentence examples for had a fancy for from inspiring English sources

For Isadora has had a fancy for facts.

But George also had a fancy for porcelain asparagus and solid gold lobsters.

In those days he had a fancy for Scottish music, so he could select The Bluebells of Scotland, Scots Wha Hae, and The Banks of Loch Lomond, depending on his mood.

The Times also noted that "many belles have a fancy for thrusting bunches of fresh violets in mysterious places about their corsets".

Turkey is easier, but anyone having a fancy for goose, duck, capon or our more unusual feathered friends shouldn't take any chances.

In addition, we found that urban has a fancy for sprawling along the inner edge of buffer belt and the edge of object patches, and revealed the drive forces of interference effects by the analysis of ID.

"There are real characters among them", he later wrote, "and you know I have a fancy for anything out of the ordinary".

Emboldened, I went to talk to Wayne Saunders, a D.C. resident who had a fancy Willy Wonka machine on his table for assessing the potency of marijuana.

Today we have a fancy term for it: aspiration dressing.

Statisticians have a fancy name for this, "first-order stochastic dominance".

Medical ethicists have a fancy word for this kind of thinking: autonomy.