"You must have been surprized to see among the list of members arrested, the name of Laurent Lecointre; but he could never be pardoned for having reduced the Convention to the embarrassing necessity of prosecuting Robespierre's associates, and he is now secured, lest his restless Quixotism should remind the public, that the pretended punishment of these criminals is in fact only a scandalous impunity.

“But, Jack,”—he bent toward me kindly,—“Jack, you mustn’t be led away by any mere quixotism into laying the foundation of your own fortune.

Some of them laughed at my arguments, as a ridiculous piece of missionary quixotism.

The artist poet who coloured the virginal form of Poverty, with the briars beneath her feet and the roses blooming round her forehead, proved by his well-known canzone that he was free from monastic Quixotism, and took a practical view of the value of worldly wealth.

For the freak he had just indulged was rank quixotism, something which had as much place in the code of a man of his calling as milk of human kindness in the management of a pawnshop.

"Believe me, it is sheer Quixotism.

To do otherwise, even to hesitate, would be the emptiest quixotism....

She could have won him at "Wake Robin" if some silly Quixotism hadn't steeled her breast against himmore than tat, she knew that in spite of herself she would have won him if it hadn't been for Hermia.