The quixotic are rarely successful, and success is the measure by which everything is judged to-day.
Under our modern development of the social sentiment we can hardly imagine a really high-minded youth setting out in such a Quixotic and fanatical enterprise.
In the love-scenes Max is always a man,--no trace here of sentimental weakness, or of any leaning to Quixotic folly.
Nevertheless he did a quixotic thing--which was Peter, of course, all over.
She was thinking of him as she waited at the gate of the hospital for Anna Gates, thinking of his shabby gray suit and unkempt hair, of his letter that she carried to Jimmy Conroy, of his quixotic proposal of the night before.
It is simply a Quixotic idea you have gotten into your head that you should go back to the mountains and spend your life trying to help your people," Mr. Polk replied emphatically.
This called forth an answer, in which the lady treated me as a Quixotic hero of romance.
This heroine of seventeen summers, beautiful as an angel, had inflamed my Quixotic heart.
Shouts of incredulous and mocking laughter, not unnaturally, greeted this Quixotic challenge.
His suspicions and David's quixotic manner of meeting them increased her faith in her lover.
To his keen, logical mind the proposal to enlist in a quest for the long lost El Dorado seemed, at first, far too quixotic to be taken seriously.
Quixotic boys who look for joys, Quixotic hazards run; A lass annoys with trivial toys, Opposing man for fun.
Once he came near being involved in a duel because of his quixotic championship of a woman whom he barely knew, and disliked, and whose absent husband he did not know at all.
I cried, anxious to defend poor Peter and his quixotic plot.
That poor fellow's so quixotic he won't take favours from a woman.
I was insane with chivalry--utterly quixotic, as quixotic as you are now.
He felt accused by the quixotic magnanimity of this strange creature, half prophet, half charlatan, whose wife he had coveted.
He could be chivalrous and even Quixotic on occasion.
This was enough to rouse in Shelley the spirit of Quixotic championship, if not to sow the seeds of love.
The scheme took Byron's fancy; but they agreed to try less Quixotic measures before they had recourse to force, and their excitement was calmed by hearing that the man's sentence had been commuted to the galleys.
His passionate love of liberty, his loathing for intolerance, his impatience of control for self and others, and his vivid logical sincerity, combined to make him the Quixotic champion of extreme opinions.
The Duke of Omnium would surely know that the Duke of St. Bungay could not support a Quixotic Prime Minister.
The thing described asQuixotic had now been done, and the Duke of St. Bungay was a disappointed man.
When he had described a certain line of conduct as Quixotic he had been very much in earnest.
Well, I'm ready to meet these fellows, thanks to the forethought that caused me to arm myself before starting on this quixotic errand to-night.
Even the Quixotichonour which had led him to entangle himself in complications at another's bidding showed a mind incapable of clear judgment--or he would have renounced the rash promise when it began to involve others.
Myles Calthorpe is a man of original will power and somewhat perverted strength of character, which is apt to land him into quixotic difficulties.
Whether in the spirit or only in the stupid deed, those Zulus were quixotic in the chivalry of their manner of fighting.
By the way, how about that quixotic Lord Ebor of your regiment?
The world seems to have grown more quixotic since I knew it better.
You most quixotic of young men," she exclaimed, "come home with us at once, and explain how you dared to avoid us all this time.
In a moment of quixoticgenerosity at Enkhuisen, I promised Phyllis, as a newly adopted, if reluctant, brother, that I would make everything right for her.
Phyllis walked beside me all the way back to the hotel, and was dearer than ever now that, through my own quixotic act, I saw her rapidly becoming unattainable.
Some fifty years later the Dominicans joined the Jesuits, and till the beginning of the eighteenth century laboured at their quixotic task.
It will among other matters deal with the work of repatriation, one of the most curious and quixotic burdens ever borne by a nation, and one, I believe, to which no real parallel can be found.
