Lexicographical Neighbors of Quixotical
Literary usage of Quixotical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Russia: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Kelly, Walter Keating (1855)
"The king made himself ridiculous as a mere quixotical braggart. The secretary of
his embassy in Petersburg delivered such an extremely absurd ultimatum, ..."
2. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1882)
"... even in the hot season ; nor .am I at all inclined to advocate the neglect of
duties close at hand for quixotical devotion to remote ones. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"... of common-sense and common honour would have done ; but Germaine was not a
man of common-sense, and his honour was of so uncommon and quixotical a type, ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1848)
"... such a project, it was argued, was quixotical here, with our more limited
means and sparser population. Mr. Jackson took a different view of the matter; ..."
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