All 12 Uses of
devise
in
Don Quixote
- Don Quixote laughed at Sancho's pleasantry; nevertheless he resolved to call himself by that name, and have his shield or buckler painted as he had devised.†
Chpt 1.19-20
- …once more, "there never was any Felixmarte of Hircania in the world, nor any Cirongilio of Thrace, or any of the other knights of the same sort, that the books of chivalry talk of; the whole thing is the fabrication and invention of idle wits, devised by them for the purpose you describe of beguiling the time, as your reapers do when they read; for I swear to you in all seriousness there never were any such knights in the world, and no such exploits or nonsense ever happened anywhere."†
Chpt 1.31-32
- Unhappy, shortsighted Anselmo, what art thou doing, what art thou plotting, what art thou devising?†
Chpt 1.33-34 *
- Bethink thee thou art working against thyself, plotting thine own dishonour, devising thine own ruin.†
Chpt 1.33-34
- "I tell you," said Camilla, "there is nothing to take care of except to answer me what I shall ask you;" for she did not wish to explain to him beforehand what she meant to do, fearing lest he should be unwilling to follow out an idea which seemed to her such a good one, and should try or devise some other less practicable plan.†
Chpt 1.33-34
- But now, the curate said, that the lady Dorothea's good fortune prevented her from proceeding with their purpose, it would be necessary to devise or discover some other way of getting him home.†
Chpt 1.37-38
- The illustrious company had now been two days in the inn; and as it seemed to them time to depart, they devised a plan so that, without giving Dorothea and Don Fernando the trouble of going back with Don Quixote to his village under pretence of restoring Queen Micomicona, the curate and the barber might carry him away with them as they proposed, and the curate be able to take his madness in hand at home; and in pursuance of their plan they arranged with the owner of an oxcart who…†
Chpt 1.45-46
- What apocryphal, ill-devised incidents, attributing to one saint the miracles of another!†
Chpt 1.47-48
- She replied that it was a beneficiary of the town who had a nice taste in devising things of the sort.†
Chpt 2.19-20
- …WITH THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED HEAD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRIVIAL MATTERS WHICH CANNOT BE LEFT UNTOLD Don Quixote's host was one Don Antonio Moreno by name, a gentleman of wealth and intelligence, and very fond of diverting himself in any fair and good-natured way; and having Don Quixote in his house he set about devising modes of making him exhibit his mad points in some harmless fashion; for jests that give pain are no jests, and no sport is worth anything if it hurts another.†
Chpt 2.61-62
- They then tried to devise some scheme for rescuing Don Gaspar Gregorio from the danger in which he had been left.†
Chpt 2.63-64
- The viceroy agreed to all that was proposed; but Don Gregorio on learning what had passed declared he could not and would not on any account leave Ana Felix; however, as it was his purpose to go and see his parents and devise some way of returning for her, he fell in with the proposed arrangement.†
Chpt 2.65-66
Definition:
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(devise as in: devise a plan) to come up with a way of doing something -- typically a creative idea or plan