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His conquests were conducted on what might almost be called principles of knighterrantry.
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See what his crazy knighterrantry had brought about.
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We were going on an adventure of knighterrantry in which we might win our spurs.
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We wait in the nursery for the bridegroom and his father to ride home from their mission of knighterrantry.
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Maclise was a romanticist, in thrall to images of medieval knighterrantry on an epic and, almost certainly, illusory scale.
Usage of quixotism in inglês
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His was Kentucky origin and he was tainted with Kentucky's quixotism.
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He obeyed and expounded Sypher's quixotism in his roundabout fashion.
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Some of them laughed at my arguments, as a ridiculous piece of missionary quixotism.
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In most cases they had followed his advice, wondering not a little at this isolated example of quixotism.
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That amounted to quixotism, they declared.
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His name was Graves, and he regarded what he called the judge's "quixotism" with condescending good-nature.
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I could have wrung my hands over Max's obstinacy and quixotism: he carried his generosity to a fault.
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To do otherwise, even to hesitate, would be the emptiest quixotism....
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But quixotism has its price.
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But Philip was off somewhere, gone out of his life this many a day in a characteristic burst of quixotism.
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Come, Mr. Burton, chivalry and quixotism are very fine things in their way; but there's no use in overdoing them.
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As for quixotism-isthere any one here not willing to fight in the last ditch to help Kagig and these Armenians?
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I have also had to pay through the nose $175 for my quixotism- asumwhich I cannot very well afford.
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The values of austerity, sobriety, quixotism, and lividly, vividly dogmatic Catholicism, which I knew as a child, have vanished, conquered by consumerism and embourgeoisement.
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But back of Jonas's judgment was that of Andrew, whose weakness was Quixotism.
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The poor creature, who, by the way, adores you, is a victim of Quixotism.