All 3 Uses of
homicide
in
Don Quixote
- "Peace," said Don Quixote; "where hast thou ever seen or heard that a knight-errant has been arraigned before a court of justice, however many homicides he may have committed?"†
Chpt 1.9-10 *homicides = instances of killing people
- One of those on horseback addressing his companion said to him, "It seems to me, SeƱor Vivaldo, that we may reckon as well spent the delay we shall incur in seeing this remarkable funeral, for remarkable it cannot but be judging by the strange things these shepherds have told us, of both the dead shepherd and homicide shepherdess."†
Chpt 1.13-14homicide = killing someone
- Let him who has been deceived complain, let him give way to despair whose encouraged hopes have proved vain, let him flatter himself whom I shall entice, let him boast whom I shall receive; but let not him call me cruel or homicide to whom I make no promise, upon whom I practise no deception, whom I neither entice nor receive.†
Chpt 1.13-14