All 3 Uses of
detach
in
Don Quixote
- Don Quixote when he saw all that bundle of beard detached, without jaws or blood, from the face of the fallen squire, exclaimed: "By the living God, but this is a great miracle!†
Chpt 1.29-30 *detached = separated OR emotionally uninvolved (separated from emotions)
- The first to break silence was Luscinda, who thus addressed Don Fernando: "Leave me, SeƱor Don Fernando, for the sake of what you owe to yourself; if no other reason will induce you, leave me to cling to the wall of which I am the ivy, to the support from which neither your importunities, nor your threats, nor your promises, nor your gifts have been able to detach me.†
Chpt 1.35-36
- The duke and duchess hearing this, and guessing what it was, ran with all haste to his room, and as the poor gentleman was striving with all his might to detach the cat from his face, they opened the door with a master-key and went in with lights and witnessed the unequal combat.†
Chpt 2.45-46
Definition:
to separate something from something else (physically or emotionally)