refer vs strike someone's fancy

refer

verb
  • To direct the attention of (someone toward something) 

  • To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. 

  • To mention (something); to direct attention (to something) 

  • To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere. 

  • To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to. 

  • To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation. 

  • Required to resit an examination. 

  • To be referential to another element in a sentence. 

noun
  • A blurb on the front page of a newspaper issue or section that refers the reader to the full story inside the issue or section by listing its slug or headline and its page number. 

strike someone's fancy

verb
  • To attract or appeal to someone. 

How often have the words refer and strike someone's fancy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )