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(My quixotical quest is described here; background on the MDL panel, funded by your tax dollars, is here.)
His Honor 2007
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My quixotical quest is described here; background on the MDL panel, funded by your tax dollars, is here.
His Honor 2007
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Napoleon was still tinkering with his quixotical Empire in Mexico.
Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World Various 1870
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She clung to the poor comfort that something must have passed at the interview so kindly sought by George to set the quixotical young farmer against him.
The Elect Lady George MacDonald 1864
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A considerable amount of the matrimonial ideas of young women are purely the result of their education, and of the atmosphere in which they have been brought up; and, by giving a new direction to their early training, it might not be altogether so quixotical to believe that we should alter all that is the result of the training.
Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Lucia Gilbert [Commentator] Calhoun 1860
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Sir Henry Lee, however, appears to have devoted his life to these chivalrous pageantries rather from a quixotical imagination than with any serious views of ambition or interest.
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822
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