Sallies
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But the man who thinks, if he shows energy and novelty in his
sallies
, you call a _cynic_.
More example sentences with word sallies
"Yes," observed the chemist; "no imagination, no sallies, nothing that makes the society-man."
These sudden ideas, which in Paris would have been called sallies, made Madame de Renal feel ashamed, as of something foolish, when she was with her husband; but Madame Derville's presence gave her courage.
Adventure-seeking doth he go up rugged heights, down rocky valleys, but hill or dale, or high or low, mishap attendeth all his sallies: love still pursues him to and fro, and plies his cruel scourge—ah me!
Don Quixote gave himself a great slap on the forehead and began to laugh heartily, and said he, "Why, I have not been wandering, either in the Sierra Morena or in the whole course of our sallies, but barely two months, and thou sayest, Sancho, that it is twenty years since I promised thee the island.
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