fantastic

• Ambulances were there with inmates,--fantastic sickrooms, with glare for shade, Tartarean heat for coolness, cannon thunder and shouting for quietness, grey enemies for nursing women, and for home a battlefield in a hostile land. —  The Long Roll
• Some indeed had actually already been trained and used by men in their hunting expeditions, and thus the semi-domesticated cat-like animals above referred to naturally became the ancestors of the leopards and jaguars One illustration of what some may be tempted to call a fantastic theory, though it may not elucidate the problem, will at least point the moral contained in this supplement to our knowledge regarding the mysterious manner in which our evolution has proceeded. —  The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria
• The girl is self-willed and fantastic, and insane! —  The Idiot
• The farther we got, the more fantastic were the forms they assumed,--till, with a little aid from the imagination, we might have fancied ourselves in some wonderful temple of an Eastern region. —  The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela
• But the 'state satirist' is always on the heels of the poet; and imagination, whenever it appears for a moment, is led away into bondage by the spirit of the fantastic, which is its prose equivalent or makeshift. —  Figures of Several Centuries

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