dulcinea

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The Count--except for the sake of my dulcinea, what was it to me whether the old coward whom I had seen, in an ague of terror before the brawling Colonel, interposed or not?

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  • The Count--except for the sake of my dulcinea, what was it to me whether the old coward whom I had seen, in an ague of terror before the brawling Colonel, interposed or not? —  The Room in the Dragon Volant
  • "There are some desirable partis at the school with your dulcinea. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
  • Well, sir, "come what come might," I stole under cover of the darkness to the dwelling of my dulcinea. —  Tales of a Traveller
  • I can fully understand why a minstrel, an American minstrel, singing a plantation melody to his dusky dulcinea, should have a blackened face, but why a man blackened as —  Watch Yourself Go By
  • Men stop at each row and choose their dulcinea, while others, less shameless, pounce on the women like bulls and kiss them one after the other. " —  The French Revolution - Volume 3
 

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  1. Spanish, from the name of Dulcinea del Toboso, the lady beloved by Don Quixote, the hero of Cervantes's romance of that name; from Latin dulcis, sweet.
 

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