hidalgo's

However much the words hurt his pride in his mandolin Rodriguez recognised in the voice the hidalgo's accent and knew that it was an equal that now approached him in the moonlight round a corner of the house with the balcony; and he knew that the request he courteously made would be as courteously granted.

Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

Yet there was no bitterness in the old hidalgo's tranquil eyes.

Days of the Discoverers L. Lamprey 1910

Or I recall, with the same sense of youthful satisfaction and unabated wonder, my wanderings through the Spanish Quarter, where three centuries of quaint customs, speech, and dress were still preserved; where the proverbs of Sancho Panza were still spoken in the language of Cervantes, and the high-flown illusions of the La Manchian knight still a part of the Spanish Californian hidalgo's dream.

Under the Redwoods Bret Harte 1869

The commandant, rising, tried to draw his sword, but could not find the hilt, and tumbled back into his big armchair; while the fat friars, whose first impulse had been to make their escape, rolled over on the ground, upsetting the hidalgo's chair in their struggles, when all three began kicking and striking out, believing each other to be foes.

Charley Laurel A Story of Adventure by Sea and Land William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Moreover, your supper is like the hidalgo's dinner, very little meat and a great deal of tablecloth.

The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844

The wine was loosening the hidalgo's tongue; on those rare occasions when he allowed himself to depart from his usual sobriety, he was not wanting in wit.

Mauprat George Sand 1840

We fell asleep while we were talking, with Blaireau at his master's feet, the hidalgo's sword across his knees near the dog, the light between us, my pistols ready to hand, my hunting-knife under my pillow, and the bolts shot.

Mauprat George Sand 1840

You know a hidalgo's prejudices -- they are insuperable.

Calderon the Courtier, a Tale Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838