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still narrower one of knight
On taking leave, Don Quixote said to Don Lorenzo, "I know not whether I have told you already, but if I have I tell you once more, that if you wish to spare yourself fatigue and toil in reaching the inaccessible summit of the temple of fame, you have nothing to do but to turn aside out of the somewhat narrow path of poetry and take the still narrower one of knight-errantry, wide enough, however, to make you an emperor in the twinkling of an eye."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

See note on Omar Khayyám
Wesley’s Journal, i. 292; ii. 59, 219, 254; story from, 110; Memorials of his Family, 219; Southey’s Life of, 220 Westminster Abbey, ii. 295 Wherstead, i. 28; ii. 231 White (James), i. 201 Wilkie (David), i. 39 Wilkinson (Mrs.), Jane FitzGerald, E. FitzGerald’s sister, i. 147, 167, 170 —(Rev. J. B.), portrait by Laurence, i. 167, 170 Williams-Wynn (Miss), Memorials, ii. 237 Windham’s Diary, ii. 84 Winsby Fight, i. 155, 160 Woburn Abbey, pictures at, i. 56 Woodberry (G. E.), his article on Crabbe in the Atlantic Monthly, ii. 281 Wordsworth (Dr. C.), Master of Trinity, ii. 194 —(W.), i. 18; and Tennyson, page 368 p. 368 36, 37; his Sonnets, 84, 87, 88; mentioned, ii. 194, 195, 197; Lowell’s account of him, 199; his opinion of Crabbe, 283, 288 Wotton (Sir H.), quoted, i. 15 Xenophon , i. 240 Zincke (Rev. Foster Barbam), ii. 149, 150, 231 Zoolus, account of, by Capt. Allen Gardiner, i. 64 the end Printed by R. & R. Clark , Limited , Edinburgh Footnotes: [2] See note on Omar Khayyám, stanza xviii.
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2 by Edward FitzGerald

seems not out of keeping
In such a pictorial representation even the despised Octave, supple, sonorous, and monotonous, seems not out of keeping.
— from Numantia by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

seemed not out of keeping
True, it was small and unpainted and in bad repair, but its smallness and its brownness seemed not out of keeping with the mountain-side.
— from The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

surpassing not only our knowledge
Reality appears to us now as surpassing not only our knowledge, but our means of knowing.
— from Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier

settlement not only of Kentucky
This speculative spirit was a powerful stimulus to the settlement not only of Kentucky, but of middle Tennessee.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt

s none o our kind
There's nowt against the lass except that she's Osborn's child, but she's none o' our kind and it's sense and custom that like gans to like."
— from The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" by Harold Bindloss

saw nothing out of keeping
Had Homer revelled in it, later Greek taste saw nothing out of keeping here; had no temptation to expurgate Pegasus, or the soul-box of Meleager, or the magical invulnerability of Achilles, or his medicinal spear, or that magical property, the Luck of Troy, the palladium, and so forth.
— from The World of Homer by Andrew Lang

silence not out of keeping
So, after a moment of awkward silence, not out of keeping with the character he had assumed, he calmly refused the present as he had the glass.
— from Initials Only by Anna Katharine Green

said naval officer on knowledge
And every such master, merchant, or other person, refusing or neglecting to pay the said duty within ten days after they are brought ashore in said colony, then the said naval officer, on knowledge thereof, shall enter an action and sue
— from History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams


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