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If I am," she replied in her rapid-fire but often imprecise English, "I would not indulge in such quixotism.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was Barbara’s part, therefore, to play the game in such a way that a bit of quixotism would be the most foolish thing of which Rash would be suspected.

From The Dust Flower by Kline, Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren)

If, as Pacheco reports, Luis de Leon was the most taciturn of men, he was chivalrous to the point of quixotism.

From Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment by Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James

If that girl had designed to cast a spell upon him, she could have chosen no more potent elixir than this sublimated essence of quixotism.

From Command by McFee, William

On this occasion the behaviour of Santa Cruz was generous almost to quixotism.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various