"Senor," replied Sancho, "let your worship send all such oaths to the devil, for they are very pernicious to salvation and prejudicial to the conscience; just tell me now, if for several days to come we fall in with no man armed with a helmet, what are we to do? — from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Senor replied Sancho let your
“Thou hast said well and hit the point,” answered Don Quixote; and so I recall the oath in so far as relates to taking fresh vengeance on him, but I make and confirm it anew to lead the life I have said until such time as I take by force from some knight another helmet such as this and as good; and think not, Sancho, that I am raising smoke with straw in doing so, for I have one to imitate in the matter, since the very same thing to a hair happened in the case of Mambrino’s helmet, which cost Sacripante so dear.” “Senor,” replied Sancho, “let your worship send all such oaths to the devil, for they are very pernicious to salvation and prejudicial to the conscience; just tell me now, if for several days to come we fall in with no man armed with a helmet, what are we to do? — from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
stage robbers shot last year
Now, as to our hotels—" "Say," said the man from Topaz City, "that reminds me—there were sixteen stage robbers shot last year within twenty miles of—" "I was speaking of hotels," said the New Yorker. — from Sixes and Sevens by O. Henry
speech Roman superstitions linger yet
Roman traditions, Roman speech, Roman superstitions linger yet among the southern Spaniards, {40} though the Moor conquered and held the country for six hundred years. — from London by Walter Besant
When asked to sing, she chose a rather significant ditty: "Ripple, sparkle, rapid stream, Let your dancing wavelets gleam Quiveringly and bright; Children think the surface glow Reaches to the depth below, Hidden from the light. — from Barriers Burned Away by Edward Payson Roe
sensitive refined spirit like yours
God forbid a sensitive, refined spirit like yours should ever come face to face with a Commissioner in Bankruptcy; these men get all the sweetness knocked right out of them. — from The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson
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