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单词 quixotism
例句 quixotism
The risk existed, therefore, and was no mere threat; it seemed foolish quixotism to run it. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z
Don't let any false quixotism blind you to that, Vane. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z
With three jumps I was up in the little gallery, wringing the hands of those performers and calling down blessings upon their quixotism as musical missionaries. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z
In a later instance, related by Walter Savage Landor, Paine's generosity amounted to quixotism. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z
He was capable of quixotism of the most whimsical sort. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z
In this condition not the least of my misery lay in the reflection that I had done no good; that I had suffered for a quixotism, and shown myself stubborn and obstinate to no purpose. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z
But there was no piece of quixotism they did not think Michael capable of. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z
On this occasion the behaviour of Santa Cruz was generous almost to quixotism. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z
To have renounced that was an heroic deed which bordered on quixotism. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z
Smoothbore was struck by the transparent candour of the man and his quixotism. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z
I set out the next morning in a humor of suspicious disillusion, all my quixotism turned sour under the dry sun. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z
If that girl had designed to cast a spell upon him, she could have chosen no more potent elixir than this sublimated essence of quixotism. Command
It is no time for quixotism to make yet another suffer. The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman
He had brought Esther to this with his blundering quixotism; he was nearly beside himself with remorse. The Phantom Lover
It was Barbara’s part, therefore, to play the game in such a way that a bit of quixotism would be the most foolish thing of which Rash would be suspected. The Dust Flower
I felt therefore an obligation to let his humanity work itself out,—which gave comfort and encouragement to my quixotism. A Romantic Young Lady
That would have been sheer quixotism—only to end fatally for all of us. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
He was not so relieved as he had expected to be by her prompt refusal of his offer, whose fine quixotism he felt had been wasted upon her. Otherwise Phyllis
Only walked more deeply into his quixotism and seriously compromised the woman he loved. The Phantom Lover
It was something wild and febrile that drove him now, and he could not have wondered at his own incredible quixotism—he was a million years removed from that! The Beginning
What you have set your heart on is a piece of unjustifiable quixotism; and I have only one thing to beg of you now. Captain Desmond, V.C.
I could see he was cut to the heart, that he loves our brave Jenny deeply, truly, and there isn't any quixotism about it. A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike
“Wrong,” replied the doctor, smiling in his old school-fellow’s face; “the quixotism is on your side in making so big a proposal on Vane’s behalf.” The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias
The materialism of this age must pass away, as has passed the quixotism of the crusades. The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society
Your marriage," she said, "seemed always to me a piece of quixotism. A Lost Leader
Leave the tithe alone by all means, if you like, but do not carry quixotism to the borders of insanity by declining to spend your own money, and thereby cramp your life. A Prince of Sinners
His name was Graves, and he regarded what he called the judge's "quixotism" with condescending good-nature. The Voice of the People
If, as Pacheco reports, Luis de Leon was the most taciturn of men, he was chivalrous to the point of quixotism. Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment
But Philip was off somewhere, gone out of his life this many a day in a characteristic burst of quixotism. Diane of the Green Van
I could have wrung my hands over Max's obstinacy and quixotism: he carried his generosity to a fault. Uncle Max
He opened his lips once more to launch nervous English against this quixotism, but Strong interposed. A Good Samaritan
Such ideas were a natural basis for the Church's attempt to control the issues of war and peace; and if we remember these ideas, we shall acquit the Church of any impracticable quixotism. The Unity of Civilization
Honest and true to the verge of quixotism was this man in all dealings with his fellows, yet he proved a faulty student of character. Children of the Mist
What he had been listening to had been the quixotism of a tender heart, ignorant of life and affairs, and all the wider possibilities open to man's will. The Mating of Lydia
Jack, you mustn’t be led away by any mere quixotism into laying the foundation of your own fortune. The House of a Thousand Candles
Some of them laughed at my arguments, as a ridiculous piece of missionary quixotism. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are
"It seems as if you were going rather far in your quixotism to marry him." Bambi
His was Kentucky origin and he was tainted with Kentucky's quixotism. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12
He Dines Out, Impeded by Superstitions Within the week I had repented of what I termed my idiotic quixotism, and for precisely nine days after that I cursed my folly. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking
If you involve yourself in quixotisms you will have no career, nor will you get married, nor will you ever amount to anything. The Reign of Greed
A British coldness of blood damped as it were the Russian quixotism which would desire to see result follow upon action—to see the world make quicker progress than its Creator has decreed. The Sowers
To do otherwise, even to hesitate, would be the emptiest quixotism…. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations
What I have suggested to you is mad quixotism at the best, and at the worst—well, do you recall what happened to poor Vyner, who was held for ransom by Greek brigands? The Eye of Zeitoon
I have also had to pay through the nose 175 dollars for my quixotism—a sum which I cannot very well afford. The American Senator
I was always telling you that these things were quixotisms. The Reign of Greed
It was a question, not of reason, not of human pity, not of quixotism; not of any argument or sentiment for which I could be responsible. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
For, mind you, beyond this rollicking blackguard there stood a second Jack, a soft-hearted, self-sacrificing other-phase, chivalrous to quixotism, yet provokingly reticent touching any act or sentiment which reflected real credit on himself. Such Is Life
Come, Mr. Burton, chivalry and quixotism are very fine things in their way; but there's no use in overdoing them. The Gadfly
Hermione, perhaps, had been wiser than he, and yet he could not help feeling something that was almost like anger against her for what he called her quixotism. A Spirit in Prison
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