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Lope Ruiz -- and this Lope Ruiz was in love with a shepherdess called Torralva, who was daughter to a rich herdsman, and this rich herdsman --- "
The Art of the Story-Teller Marie L. Shedlock 1894
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Torralva, who knew of it, went after him, and on foot and barefoot followed him at a distance, with a pilgrim's staff in her hand and a scrip round her neck, in which she carried, it is said,
Don Quixote 2002
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"In a village of Estramadura there was a shepherd – no, I mean a goatherd – which shepherd or goatherd as my story says, was called Lope Ruiz – and this Lope Ruiz was in love with a shepherdess called Torralva, who was daughter to a rich herdsman, and this rich herdsman —"
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Torralva, that saw herself disdained by Lope, did presently love him better than ever she did before.
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So that, my dear sir of my soul, quoth Sancho, that, as I have said already, this shepherd was in love with Torralva the shepherdess, who was a round wench, scornful, and drew somewhat near to a man, for she had mochachoes; for methinks I see her now before my face.
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Torralva, which knew it well, followed him afoot and bare-legged, afar off, with a pilgrims staff in her hand, and a wallet hanging at her neck, where they say that she carried a piece of a looking-glass, and another of a comb, and I know not what little bottles of changes for her face.
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And in one of these skirmishes, a rich Moor was taken who was Alcayde of Acala, which is near Torralva, and they gave him grievous torments till he ransomed himself for ten thousand marks of silver; and moreover he gave the houses which he had in Valencia, which were called the houses of Añaya, to be theirs if peradventure the town should be yielded up.
Chronicle of the Cid Various 1808
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Torralva was approaching and would give him great annoyance with her tears and entreaties; however, he went looking about so closely that he discovered a fisherman who had alongside of him a boat so small that it could only hold one person and one goat; but for all that he spoke to him and agreed with him to carry himself and his three hundred goats across.
The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581
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Torralva was approaching and would give him great annoyance with her tears and entreaties; however, he went looking about so closely that he discovered a fisherman who had alongside of him a boat so small that it could only hold one person and one goat; but for all that he spoke to him and agreed with him to carry himself and his three hundred goats across.
The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 07 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581
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Torralva was approaching and would give him great annoyance with her tears and entreaties; however, he went looking about so closely that he discovered a fisherman who had alongside of him a boat so small that it could only hold one person and one goat; but for all that he spoke to him and agreed with him to carry himself and his three hundred goats across.
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581
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