Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Full title: His Exalted Highness Asaf Jah, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk-Wal-Mumilak, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Nizam ud Daula Nawab Mir Sir Vsman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fateh Jung, Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India, Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, Honorable Lieutenant General in the Army, Faithful Ally of the British Government...
...literature, who, weary of the frothy, extravagant romances that had so long been the vogue in Spain, set himself to mock his scribbling brothers with a tale more fantastic than any that had been written. A great satirist, Cervantes?a greater poet. He took for his hero a knight as mad as the northwind, put him through incredible paces, made him withal so real, so courageous, so pathetic, so magnificent that not for three centuries has one been found to rival...
...basis of Cervantes' Don Quixote, cut and pieced by librettist Henri Cain, Jules Massenet wrote an opera, wrote it seeing Feodor Chaliapin, big Russian bass, craftiest of impersonators, as the noble moulting Don Quichotte de la Mancha, Baron, Duke and Knight of the Rueful Countenance...
...reward later, in another field, just after dawn. There, and at an interview by the tomb of Sir Robert Maulgrave?the Satanic baronet who had drunk from a skull and ridden a zebra about the countryside?Lolly made certain of Satan for what he is?a black knight wandering about succoring decayed gentlewomen; a loving huntsman who affords empty lives some adventure by pursuing their souls in all their windings, patiently, secretly, like a gentleman stalking tigers. . . . Such a delicate perfection in spider-claw prose is not published once in a crooked moon. It is the kind of book that...
...Knight...