Rocinante

Steinbeck lived and wrote in, Rocinante, is housed at the new Steinbeck

John Steinbeck 2010

Her old Land Rover was parked in its usual place with Eliot's pickup truck beside it; the Volkswagen bus she called Rocinante was gone.

A Darker Place King, Laurie R. 1999

He made himself a helmet out of an old bucket and climbed onto an ancient old nag of a horse he called Rocinante, imagining it to be a magnificent steed trained as a warhorse.

A Darker Place King, Laurie R. 1999

Thus the name Rocinante meant that the horse had formerly been a hack, or work horse.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

I've written previously about how I was influenced at an impressionable age by John Steinbeck's "Travels With Charley," in which he circled the country in a camper he called Rocinante, named for Don Quixote's horse.

The Seattle Times 2010

Panza; he presses the loins and rules the reins of a famous steed called Rocinante; and lastly, he has for the mistress of his will a certain Dulcinea del Toboso, once upon a time called Aldonza

Don Quixote 2002

Then he took an old and worn out horse whose ribs stuck out from his hide and who was more used to hauling vegetables than to warlike adventures, and he called the horse by the high sounding name of "Rocinante," and really believed that the senile old animal was a greater charger than Bucephalus, the famous horse that bore the conqueror, Alexander.

A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Clayton Edwards

Though made to serve as a logo for a television show, Wein's angular 1959 "Don Quixote" atop his beloved steed "Rocinante" conveys the farcical idealism of the Spanish knight errant.

The Daily News Transcript Homepage RSS 2008

But this year I made my way through the tome, plodding step by plodding step, feeling great empathy for Don Quixote's old nag, Rocinante, every step of the way.

Richard C. Morais: Our Knight In Shining Armor Richard C. Morais 2010

But this year I made my way through the tome, plodding step by plodding step, feeling great empathy for Don Quixote's old nag, Rocinante, every step of the way.

Richard C. Morais: Our Knight In Shining Armor Richard C. Morais 2010