Don Quixote

As for the Don Quixote, that is someone like Mr. Mayo: a tough-minded workaholic with a dystopian view of the industry and its characters.

One Analyst Is Detailing His 'Fight' Francesco Guerrera 2011

This is the story of Sen. Jim DeMint, who could be called the Don Quixote of Washington.

The Plunging Dollar 2008

There was a dignity about his tall stooping form, and an earnestness in his wrinkled face that recalled Don Quixote; but a

Memories and Portraits 2005

Alonso Quixano the Good, commonly called Don Quixote of La Mancha, had passed away from this present life, and died naturally; and said he desired this testimony in order to remove the possibility of any other author save Cide Hamete Benengeli bringing him to life again falsely and making interminable stories out of his achievements.

Don Quixote 2002

'I've got a theory,' said my chin-tufted friend (I have made up my mind to recall Don Quixote in future when I think of him rather than that mediaeval print).

Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910

And I would have your reverence to understand that I am a knight of the Mancha, called Don Quixote; and mine office and exercise is, to go throughout the world righting of wrongs and undoing of injuries.

The Third Book. V. Of the Discreet Discourse Passed between Sancho and His Lord; with the Adventure Succeeding of a Dead Body; and Other Notable Occurrences 1909

And that you may not pine to learn the name of your deliverer, know that I am called Don Quixote of the Mancha, knight-errant, adventurer, and captive of the peerless and beauteous

The Junior Classics — Volume 4 William Patten 1902

Ten years later, Cervantes published the second part of Don Quixote, which is even better than the first.

Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853

I am called Don Quixote because I am a kind of a fool, an original, an enthusiastic admirer of all noble and holy things, a dreamer of noble deeds, a defender of the oppressed, a slayer of egotists; because I believe in all religions, even the religion of love.

The Cross of Berny Jules Sandeau 1847

Paul had been very justly called the Don Quixote of the coalition, and the other powers were now not a little apprehensive of the course he might adopt, for madman as he was, he was the powerful monarch of some forty millions of people.

The Empire of Russia 1841