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Don Quixote de la Mancha
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  • With the lean uprightness of the former looking down upon the squat rotundity of the latter, one could not help but think of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza on the plains of the Sierra Morena.†   (source)
  • A regular Don Quixote, that one.†   (source)
  • He says he spent some time at the Central Library earlier in the day but couldn't find the desired Brahms double concerto, Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, Mendelssohn's Third and Fourth Symphonies, Sibelius's Symphony No. 2, and Strauss's Don Quixote.†   (source)
  • A few months after my defection, Ben cast me in the technically challenging Don Quixote pas de deux for a national tour.†   (source)
  • With the force of his imagination and will, Don Quixote insists on seeing this raped and beaten woman as his sweet and lovely maiden Dulcinea.†   (source)
  • But just as Don Quixote had his mythical battle against the one-eyed giants, Angel and his eight fellow Sancho Panzas were ready for the challenge.†   (source)
  • His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion?†   (source)
  • I'd painted my dad as Don Quixote in a semi, on a quest for philosophical truths and the best cup of coffee in the nation.†   (source)
  • The old man crossed the room to another bookcase, opening its glass door and removing an early edition of Don Quixote.†   (source)
  • And because my planned trip had aroused some satiric remarks among my friends, I named it Rocinante, which you will remember was the name of Don Quixote's horse.†   (source)
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  • Or even Don Quixote, for that thing was about the size of a windmill.†   (source)
  • DUDARD: You're a Don Quixote.†   (source)
  • My last performance was as Basilio in Don Quixote.†   (source)
  • Don Quixote would transfer to Penn; my father wrote him a passionate letter of recommendation.†   (source)
  • "On board all day, reading Don Quixote," was the single entry for May 18.†   (source)
  • I reinterpreted Don Quixote as a modern urban parable and made Sancho the hero.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, Don Quixote had a hard time loving chaste and pure from afar.†   (source)
  • "I'm playing in the tunnels," he tells Snyder, "where Don Quixote and Colonel Sanders have been involved in a bloody battle."†   (source)
  • With his hubcap as a shield and violin bow as a sword, Nathaniel is a bit like Don Quixote, holding to a strict moral and artistic code while everyone around him has fallen.†   (source)
  • John Adams's irrepressible desire was to seize hold of it, and at times his was to be the path of Don Quixote.†   (source)
  • Another child, Thomas Boylston, was born in September of 1772, and again Adams was off on the "vagabond life" of the circuit, carrying a copy of Don Quixote in his saddlebag and writing Abigail sometimes as many as three letters a day.†   (source)
  • At first light, December 15, Adams, his sons, Francis Dana, John Thaxter, servants, Spanish guides and muleteers, and two additional Americans who had been aboard the Sensible, set off mounted on scrawny mules and looking, as John Thaxter noted, very like a scene from Don Quixote, and quixotic the whole undertaking turned out to be.†   (source)
  • He had given up Don Quixote and taken to keeping a bottle of Chivas Regal in his apartment near Penn.†   (source)
  • Following a song and scene called "The Abduction," where Aldonza is kidnapped, and, it is implied, gang-raped, Don Quixote comes upon her after she has been discarded by her captors.†   (source)
  • Looking back now, listening to the lyrics again, it is not lost on me, as it was then, that Don Quixote dies in the end, that Aldonza survives, that it is she who sings the refrain from "The Impossible Dream," she who is left standing to do battle.†   (source)
  • I had played Don Quixote often enough in my difficult, crazed life, had put honor before comfort, and heroism before reason.†   (source)
  • And whoever wants more and has got it in him—the heroic and the beautiful, and the reverence for the great poets or for the saints—is a fool and a Don Quixote.†   (source)
  • DE GUICHE (who has controlled himself—smiling): Have you read 'Don Quixote'?†   (source)
  • He is a Don Quixote, only serious and not comical.†   (source)
  • 'Just so,' answered Don Quixote: 'and that resplendent object is the helmet of Mambrino.'†   (source)
  • We do not think of Don Quixote but of Leonidas.†   (source)
  • They are often saner and shrewder than the philosophers just as Sancho-Panza was often saner and shrewder than Don Quixote.†   (source)
  • She laughed when, about a week later, she happened to notice the name of the book, and saw that it was Don Quixote, but it would be difficult to say exactly why.†   (source)
  • "Don Quixote," "Wilhelm Meister," and the Koran, she reflected that no one she knew, not even her father, had read all four.†   (source)
  • He said if I warn't so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking.†   (source)
  • To cheat his impatience Philip began to teach himself Spanish, and in the deserted sitting-room in Harrington Street he spent an hour every evening doing Spanish exercises and puzzling out with an English translation by his side the magnificent phrases of Don Quixote.†   (source)
  • And a tragic Don Quixote.†   (source)
  • When his swagger is exhausted he drivels into erotic poetry or sentimental uxoriousness; and the Tennysonian King Arthur posing as Guinevere becomes Don Quixote grovelling before Dulcinea.†   (source)
  • His grandiloquence amused Philip, but he was sensitive to rhetoric; and he listened with pleasure while Athelny, with picturesque expressions and the fire of a real enthusiasm, described to him the rich delight of reading Don Quixote in the original and the music, romantic, limpid, passionate, of the enchanting Calderon.†   (source)
  • "A month ago you were turning over the pages of your Don Quixote, and suddenly called out 'there is nothing better than the poor knight.'†   (source)
  • That is the only prosperity you see on the stage, where the workers are all footmen, parlourmaids, comic lodging-letters and fashionable professional men, whilst the heroes and heroines are miraculously provided with unlimited dividends, and eat gratuitously, like the knights in Don Quixote's books of chivalry.†   (source)
  • I don't know whom you were referring to, of course, whether to Don Quixote, or Evgenie Pavlovitch, or someone else, but you certainly said these words, and afterwards there was a long conversation…."†   (source)
  • As "Three high-backed chairs, a table and cover, long-necked bottle (containing wine), one flask, one Spanish female's costume, three-quarter face portrait of Miss Jogg the model, and a suit of armour containing Don Quixote."†   (source)
  • From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.†   (source)
  • He borrowed this from "Don Quixote," the only book he had ever read, but which he still slightly remembered.†   (source)
  • And this feeling had been more painfully perceived by young d'Artagnan—for so was the Don Quixote of this second Rosinante named—from his not being able to conceal from himself the ridiculous appearance that such a steed gave him, good horseman as he was.†   (source)
  • Don Quixote took windmills for giants, and sheep for armies; d'Artagnan took every smile for an insult, and every look as a provocation—whence it resulted that from Tarbes to Meung his fist was constantly doubled, or his hand on the hilt of his sword; and yet the fist did not descend upon any jaw, nor did the sword issue from its scabbard.†   (source)
  • "You will lose the disinterested part of your Don Quixote character," said Lady Dedlock to Mr. Jarndyce over her shoulder again, "if you only redress the wrongs of beauty like this.†   (source)
  • Imagine to yourself a Don Quixote of eighteen; a Don Quixote without his corselet, without his coat of mail, without his cuisses; a Don Quixote clothed in a woolen doublet, the blue color of which had faded into a nameless shade between lees of wine and a heavenly azure; face long and brown; high cheek bones, a sign of sagacity; the maxillary muscles enormously developed, an infallible sign by which a Gascon may always be detected, even without his cap—and our young man wore a cap set…†   (source)
  • They remind one of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.†   (source)
  • Never was Don Quixote so exactly imitated!†   (source)
  • In a word, my man thus accoutred, looked upon himself as great as Don Quixote, when that celebrated champion went to combat the windmill.†   (source)
  • In which is introduced one of the pleasantest barbers that was ever recorded in history, the barber of Bagdad, or he in Don Quixote, not excepted.†   (source)
  • Having scoured the whole coast of the enemy, as well as any of Homer's heroes ever did, or as Don Quixote or any knight-errant in the world could have done, he returned to Molly, whom he found in a condition which must give both me and my reader pain, was it to be described here.†   (source)
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  • "That's how that thief of a sage, my enemy, can alter and falsify things," answered Don Quixote;   (source)
  • Don Quixote asked them what it was they had heard of Marcela and Chrysostom.   (source)
  • "It may be on the dice," said Don Quixote, "that all thou sayest will come true;"   (source)
  • Maritornes felt sure that Don Quixote would present the hand she had asked, and…   (source)
  • "And who killed him?" asked Don Quixote.   (source)
  • "Then this is an inn?" said Don Quixote.   (source)
  • "Now I declare," said Don Quixote, "he who reads much and travels much sees and knows a great deal."   (source)
  • The curate was holding Don Quixote's hands…   (source)
  • To this, Don Quixote replied that he knew what he was about.   (source)
  • "What then, discreet dame, is it that your mistress wants?" replied Don Quixote.   (source)
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  • "What thou sayest is true, Sancho," replied Don Quixote;   (source)
  • Sancho ... approached the cage in which Don Quixote was placed, and said…   (source)
  • "Fear not that, Sancho," said Don Quixote: "Heaven will deal better by thee."   (source)
  • …enough has been already written about Don Quixote,   (source)
  • "And that Don Quixote-" said our one, "had he with him a squire called Sancho Panza?"   (source)
  • "Thou art growing less doltish and more shrewd every day, Sancho," said Don Quixote.   (source)
  • The duke and Don Quixote likewise dismounted and placed themselves one at each side of her.   (source)
  • IN PRAISE OF ROCINANTE, STEED OF DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA   (source)
  • By my oath, Senor Don Quixote, you are not in your right senses;   (source)
  • "Why, how dost thou know that noblemen have equerries behind them?" asked Don Quixote.   (source)
  • "And hast thou got it still in thy memory, Sancho?" said Don Quixote.   (source)
  • "I was never scorned by my lady," said Don Quixote.   (source)
  • "That which treats of me must have pleased few," said Don Quixote.   (source)
  • "If not, what dost thou believe?" asked Don Quixote.   (source)
  • "But how did you land at Osuna, senora," asked Don Quixote, "when it is not a seaport?"   (source)
  • "What art thou talking about dismounting or sleeping for?" said Don Quixote.   (source)
  • "Thou wilt drive me to desperation, Sancho," said Don Quixote.   (source)
  • When Don Quixote perceived what it was, he was struck dumb and rigid from head to foot.   (source)
  • When Don Quixote saw himself caged and hoisted on the cart in this way, he said...   (source)
  • "And what does the author mean to do?" said Don Quixote.   (source)
  • Don Quixote begged them to leave him to himself, as he had a wish to sleep a little.   (source)
  • "Sancho, my friend," replied Don Quixote, "sometimes proportion may be as good as promotion."   (source)
  • "Lies before me, base clown!" said Don Quixote.   (source)
  • "I looked for no less, my lord, from your High Magnificence," replied Don Quixote,   (source)
  • "I do not recognise you, friend," said Don Quixote, "nor do I know who you are, unless you tell me."   (source)
  • "What!" said Don Quixote, "has that never reached them?"   (source)
  • Continuing his discourse Don Quixote said:   (source)
  • "Be it so, and God be with thee," said Don Quixote.   (source)
  • "To see if I have that mole your father spoke of," answered Don Quixote.   (source)
  • "Say no more on that subject for thy life, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for it is displeasing to me;"   (source)
  • "Go on with thy story, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and leave the choice of our road to my care."   (source)
  • "You are a great scoundrel," said Don Quixote, "and it is you who are empty and a fool."   (source)
  • "With less than three reals, six quarts of it may be made," said Don Quixote.   (source)
  • "In that case we have nothing to eat to-day," replied Don Quixote.   (source)
  • "So, then," said Don Quixote, "the story has come to an end?"   (source)
  • And so saying he clasped in his arms the knee of Don Quixote's left leg.   (source)
  • "I will pluck out my own in the land of the Moors," said Don Quixote, "if I don't cure yours."   (source)
  • "Holy God! what art thou saying, Sancho, my friend?" exclaimed Don Quixote.   (source)
  • "I will give twenty with pleasure to get you out of that trouble," said Don Quixote.   (source)
  • Good God, what was the indignation of Don Quixote when he heard the audacious words of his squire!   (source)
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