Sentence Examples

1. Finding himself fast, then, and that the ladies had retired, he began to fancy that all this was done by enchantment, as on the former occasion when in that same castle that enchanted Moor of a carrier had belaboured him and he cursed in his heart his own want of sense and judgment in venturing to enter the castle again, after having come off so badly the first time it being a settled point with knights-errant that when they have tried an adventure, and have not succeeded in it, it is a sign that it is not reserved for them but for others, and that therefore they need not try it again.
2. While at dinner, the company consisting of the landlord, his wife, their daughter, Maritornes, and all the travellers, they discussed the strange craze of Don Quixote and the manner in which he had been found and the landlady told them what had taken place between him and the carrier and then, looking round to see if Sancho was there, when she saw he was not, she gave them the whole story of his blanketing, which they received with no little amusement.
3. The carrier had made an arrangement with her for recreation that night, and she had given him her word that when the guests were quiet and the family asleep she would come in search of him and meet his wishes unreservedly.
4. Crossing the yard his attention was caught by a heated argument taking place between a girl and a water carrier.
5. The water carrier yelped in surprise as his wrist was grasped and painfully wrenched downwards.
6. The innkeeper retreated to his room, the carrier to his pack-saddles, the lass to her crib the unlucky Don Quixote and Sancho alone were unable to move from where they were.
7. The carrier, however, perceiving by the light of the innkeeper candle how it fared with his ladylove, quitting Don Quixote, ran to bring her the help she needed and the innkeeper did the same but with a different intention, for his was to chastise the lass, as he believed that beyond a doubt she alone was the cause of all the harmony.
8. He then asked for some vial to pour it into, and as there was not one in the inn, he decided on putting it into a tin oil-bottle or flask of which the host made him a free gift and over the flask he repeated more than eighty paternosters and as many more ave-marias, salves, and credos, accompanying each word with a cross by way of benediction, at all which there were present Sancho, the innkeeper, and the cuadrillero for the carrier was now peacefully engaged in attending to the comfort of his mules.
9. Inside the kitchen, I put Gloria, asleep in her carrier, on the floor by my feet.
10. I was standing on the pavement watching Celestino extract the baby carrier from the back seat.