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Sentence Examples
| This is where Sancho knows his master has lost his marbles since he himself produced this ersatz Dulcinea. |
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| Alfonso I and his son Sancho I reconquered the remaining Portuguese territory from the Muslims. |
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| I became very attached to the pup after a few days, until the night that Sancho sent me up to the topsides. |
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| As Sancho runs to help, the clown climbs upon his donkey and mimes the funny scene he has just witnessed and then returns the donkey. |
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| They head out in the boat and Sancho starts crying after he hears his donkey braying plaintively. |
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| She tells Sancho that he can take his donkey with him when he becomes governor and spoil him. |
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| This thought cheers Sancho greatly and he asks Don Quijote how much he's willing to pay for each lash. |
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| Sancho Panza thinks they had better bring the two portmanteaus back to Ireland as quietly as possible. |
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| Don Quixote, covered with shame and out of countenance, ran to pluck the plume from his poor jade's tail, while Sancho did the same for Dapple. |
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| A post horn blows outside and a messenger brings a letter from the Duke informing Sancho that enemies are planning to attack the island. |
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| These two beat up Sancho when he tries to take some friars' frocks as battle spoils. |
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| After the madman leaves, Sancho tries to blame the goatherd for what happened, saying he should have warned them of the man's violent temper. |
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| While Sancho falls quickly to sleep, Don Quijote remains wakeful and restless. |
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| Sancho, too, despite his coarseness, is endearingly innocent. |
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| Don Quijote's pretense at madness and further references to Mambrino's basin, is starting to convince Sancho that his master is indeed batty and he tells him so. |
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| Sancho resigns himself and agrees to the task on the condition that he is not required to draw blood with these whippings and that gentle lashes count too. |
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| By the end of the year Sancho VII had dropped out of the war under Papal pressure. |
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| Meanwhile, Navarre lost all importance under King Sancho IV, for he lost Rioja to Sancho II of Castile, and nearly became the vassal of Aragon. |
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| Leading Black activists of this era included Olaudah Equiano, Ignatius Sancho and Quobna Ottobah Cugoano. |
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| In the 12th century, however, the kingdom contracted to its core, and in 1162 King Sancho VI declared himself king of Navarre. |
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| It was formed when Sancho III of Navarre decided to divide his large realm among all his sons. |
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| Early in his reign, James attempted to reunite the Aragonese and Navarrese crowns through a treaty with the childless Sancho VII of Navarre. |
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| Dom Sancho Henriques' forces were attacking Bintang and Patani. |
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| They obtained logistical support from Count Sancho Garcia of Castile. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| On getting up in the morning Sancho Panza was grieved to find the contents of his bota decidedly diminished. |
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| When meal-time arrives, each peasant brings out the alforja, or embroidered wallet, which Sancho Panza kept so well filled. |
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| Take care, Sancho, not to chew on both sides, and not to eruct in anybody's presence. |
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| Sancho was seated on the captain's stage, close to the aftermost rower on the right-hand side. |
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| The comic epic chronicles the adventures of Don Quixote and his capricious but good-humoured peasant squire Sancho Panza. |
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| I wiped his eyes with his frock, told him he was all right and called Sancho to pacify him. |
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| As regard class of the first quaternion, like Sancho Panza I have no intention of indicating how old these may be. |
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| Had a lively time in my seminary this morning, for the children acted like Sancho, and at one time I really thought I should shake them all round. |
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| Did faithful Sancho fall in at heel at his Quixote's bidding? |
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| Leaving Sancho in care of an attendant, I followed him into the auberge. |
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| Sancho seeing this was puzzled, and looking from one to another asked if this dinner was to be eaten after the fashion of a jugglery trick. |
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| When Sancho had calmed himself, he concurred in this opinion. |
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| You may depend on me, Sancho, because my dependance is on you. |
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| Sancho sizes him up as a keen sahib, and enquires Quien sabe? |
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| Sancho Panza, who was wishing the goatherd's loquacity at the devil, on his part begged his master to go into Pedro's hut to sleep. |
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| Sancho, a stringed instrument from Senegambia, Western Africa. |
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| So that, O Sancho, amongst all these calumnies against good men, mine may be let pass, since they are no more than thou hast said. |
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| Critics often marvel at the burst of Solomonic and Platonic wisdom that Sancho displays when he finally gets his island. |
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| By the side of the knight is laid Stolid man Sancho too, Than whom a squire more true Was not in the esquire trade. |
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| At length, by unfrequented roads, short cuts, and secret paths, Roque, Don Quixote, and Sancho, together with six squires, set out for Barcelona. |
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| All over the place nothing was to be heard except the barking of dogs, which deafened the ears of Don Quixote and troubled the heart of Sancho. |
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| Sometimes we had mishaps, as when one got stuck twice in succession in a five-handed game of Sancho Pedro for the drinks. |
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| Certainly, but what wouldst thou infer from all this, Sancho? |
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| Don't you trust to that, Sancho, for the Manchegan folk are as hot-tempered as they are honest, and won't put up with liberties from anybody. |
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| On these and the like promises Sancho Panza left wife and children, and engaged himself as esquire to his neighbour. |
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| It was not blows, Sancho said, but that the rock had many points and projections, and that each of them had left its mark. |
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| Rhadamanthus bade Sancho put away his wrath, as the object they had in view was now attained. |
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| Sancho answered that it was nothing, only that he had fallen down from a rock and had his ribs a little bruised. |
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| The eyes did not notice me, but sparkled with glee on beholding Sancho, my beautiful black and white setter, that was coursing about the field with its muzzle to the ground. |
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| In front of them all came a wooden castle drawn by four wild men, all clad in ivy and hemp stained green, and looking so natural that they nearly terrified Sancho. |
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| I tell thee, Sancho, if thou hadst discretion equal to thy mother wit, thou mightst take a pulpit in hand, and go about the world preaching fine sermons. |
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| Since their debut in 1605, the lanky, bandy-legged figure of Quixote and his contrastingly tubby sidekick Sancho Panza have become a part of international popular culture. |
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| For I must tell thee, Sancho, that when I approached to put Dulcinea upon her hackney, she gave me a whiff of raw garlic that made my head reel, and poisoned my very heart. |
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| Absorbed and wrapped up in these and divers other cogitations, he was found by Sancho and Carrasco, whom Don Quixote received with great courtesy. |
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| In a word, he made so many good rules that to this day they are preserved there, and are called The constitutions of the great governor Sancho Panza. |
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| But, putting this aside, tell me, Sancho, hast thou a mind to have another turn at thyself to-night, and wouldst thou rather have it indoors or in the open air? |
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| Carrasco undertook the task, and Tom Cecial, a gossip and neighbour of Sancho Panza's, a lively, feather-headed fellow, offered himself as his squire. |
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| Don Quixote, who desired nothing better, rose and ordered Sancho to saddle and pannel at once, which he did with all despatch, and with the same they all set out forthwith. |
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| Sancho was mounted on his Dapple, with his alforjas, valise, and proven. |
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| It is true that the innkeeper detained his alforjas in payment of what was owing to him, but Sancho took his departure in such a flurry that he never missed them. |
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| When Sancho heard him call the basin a headpiece he was unable to restrain his laughter, but remembering his master's wrath he checked himself in the midst of it. |
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