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Common terms and phrases
adventure Amadis de Gaul answered Don Quixote answered Sancho armour arms barber beauty began Bernardo del Carpio better Biscainer called Cardenio carried castle cavalier Cervantes CHAP combat damsel desired devil discourse Don Fernando Dulcinea del Toboso enchanted eyes famous father favour fear fortune friend Sancho Galaor gave gentleman giants give goatherd hand head heard hearing heart heaven helmet honour horse king knight knights-errant la Mancha lady Dulcinea lance leave Lucinda Mancha manner Marcela master misfortune mistress mountain mule never pain pass perceived person pleased portmanteau pray present priest princess promised Quixote's quoth Sancho replied Don Quixote replied Sancho rock romances Rosinante Sancho Panza Saracens shepherd shew Signor sorrowful figure Spain squire stood story sword tell thee thing thou thought told took words worship wounded
Popular passages
Page 7 - But not altogether approving of his having broken it to pieces with so much ease, to secure himself from the like danger for the future, he made it over again, fencing it with small bars of iron withi-n, in such a manner, that he rested satisfied of its strength ; and without caring to make afresh experiment on it, he approved and looked upon it as a most excellent helmet.
Page 14 - Rozinante, the inseparable companion of all my travels and excursions." Then on a sudden, as one really enamoured, he went on, saying: "O Princess Dulcinea ! mistress of this captive heart ! great injury hast thou done me in discarding and disgracing me by thy rigorous decree, forbidding me to appear in the presence of thy beauty.
Page 318 - For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
Page 1 - I shall not name, there lived not long ago one of those oldfashioned gentlemen who are never without a lance upon a rack, an old target, a lean horse, and a greyhound.
Page 73 - Fortune disposes our affairs better than we ourselves could have desired ; look yonder, friend Sancho Panza, where thou mayest discover somewhat more than thirty monstrous giants, whom I intend to encounter and slay ; and with their spoils we will begin to enrich ourselves ; for it is lawful war, and doing God good service to remove so wicked a generation from off the face of the earth.
Page liii - The country people flock from all sides many miles off, to hear and see it. For they have therein devils and devices, to delight as well the eye as the ear.