A woman tells of faking her way through a session with Dr. Mack, who, she asserts, encouraged her "most far-fetched" tales.

That would sound like a far-fetched tale, if several flight attendants from Kenya Airways had not been found carrying cocaine from Kenya to Amsterdam and London around the same time.

Bart and Lisa believe that it is just another one of Grampa's far-fetched tales, but when they hear a thump in the den, they find that Santa is there.

Blimey, not such a far-fetched tale - clearly nothing much has happened in your life.

Prepare for a far-fetched tale of a prospective bird-breeder called 'Rambo', a burly former Yorkshire miner who admits he prefers his ducks buried under a mountain of cranberry sauce.

At times, he grows impatient with Le's habit of getting drunk and telling far-fetched tales; at other moments, he berates himself for being judgmental and chintzy and for taking a "journalistic interest in Le."

Fort William remains hidden within a walled military zone but for an amusingly far-fetched tale of someone who managed to get in, read Simon Winchester's Calcutta.

And in Pearsall's semi-fictionalised biography, by Sarah Hartley, there is an even more romantic and far-fetched tale.

The satisfaction here, as in the past, comes from watching Mr. Thaw put the detective through his paces, locating that kernel of believability in the man to make yet another far-fetched tale seem real.

Nearly a century later, and citing James, Condon characterized these "far-fetched tales" as the products of "[h]istorians as novelists, or those revising to match their own views of the evils of the past".