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1. And to prove it, thou knowest already, Sancho, by experience which cannot lie or deceive, how easy it is for enchanters to change one countenance into another, turning fair into foul, and foul into fair for it is not two days since thou sawest with thine own eyes the beauty and elegance of the peerless Dulcinea in all its perfection and natural harmony, while I saw her in the repulsive and mean form of a coarse country wench, with cataracts in her eyes and a foul smell in her mouth and when the perverse enchanter ventured to effect so wicked a transformation, it is no wonder if he effected that of Samson Carrasco and thy gossip in order to snatch the glory of victory out of my grasp.
2. Its eyes were like bleached bones, reflecting nothing, yet I could almost feel its perverse gaze settle on me.
3. Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition.
4. The perverse mood that had led to my suggestion we play strip poker dissipated, leaving behind a bad taste in my mouth.
5. As she named each of them, describing in detail what their turn had entailed, she found it cathartic, as though finally stating it out loud made it clear that it was a heinous unprovoked attack, and that the things they did were perverse and brutal.
6. Never did a perverse nature declare itself more prematurely, and yet it was not owing to any fault in his bringing up.
7. Never mind that he seemed to get an almost perverse pleasure at cutting into their earnings.
8. It was no good the paralysis from the wound in the back of her neck held her, and her captor seemed to take a perverse pleasure in tugging her along the floor.
9. I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.
10. The battle lasted nearly half an hour, and then the phantoms fled Doña Rodriguez gathered up her skirts, and bemoaning her fate went out without saying a word to Don Quixote, and he, sorely pinched, puzzled, and dejected, remained alone, and there we will leave him, wondering who could have been the perverse enchanter who had reduced him to such a state but that shall be told in due season, for Sancho claims our attention, and the methodical arrangement of the story demands it.