I had expected some extravagant proposition, and remained silent awhile, collecting my thoughts that I might the better combat her fanciful scheme.

He then invested in a fanciful scheme intended to convert $100 million to $7.1 billion.

Bute was the figurehead of a group of Tories who set about fulfilling the fine if fanciful scheme for a democratic monarchy sketched by Bolingbroke in "The Patriot King."

A slim man with the moniker of Mongoose babbled on about a fanciful scheme he was working on that would set him up for life.

Some American officials remain skeptical about whether Libya ever pursued a serious plot to kill Prince Abdullah, regarding it more as a fanciful scheme.

"Of all fanciful schemes of fiction it pleases me most," he in one place declared, and again referred to it as "a greatly imagined and symmetrically developed tale."

Wible had met Viole Falushe in con- nection with his fanciful scheme for a seagoing palace, ring-shaped to enclose a central lagoon.

Tony is "a bum" in Mario's eyes who puts his time and money into fanciful schemes rather than honest work.

Well, of course, the plan was flawed and their fanciful monetary scheme collapsed.