Sublime

“Stout ropes to check him, and stout oars to guide.” he sent for Aristotle, the most renowned philosopher of the age, to be his son’s tutor, and paid him a handsome reward for doing so.

taciturn

On 11 September, the British began co-ordinating the firing of all their guns, so that the shot struck the walls simultaneously in great deafening salvoes. By midday, the city walls were finally beginning to crumble, “sending up clouds of dust, and bringing the masonry down into the ditch.”

confusion—but Don Quixote failed and fell, while Sancho Panza lived a fat, prosperous peasant.