Unit 5: Selection Vocabulary 3

Yet I had become captivated. This land had become for me not just a destination, but a place of complete fantasy, a place that could have existed only in the imagination of itinerant storytellers in the souqs of Barbary.

This was how the journey across the Ocean of Fog and Darkness worked on you, even if you had never wanted to undertake it.

My master stood at the fore of the vessel, one hand on his hip, the other resting on the pommel of his sword; the posture seemed to me so perfect an expression of his eagerness to claim the treasures of the new world that he might have been posing for an unseen sculptor.

Along the path, curious seagulls came to watch us and departed again in a flutter of wings.

So I had never been able to shake the feeling that this Estebanico was a man conceived by the Castilians, quite different from the man I really was.

...you must therefore be content to
slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with this
more stubborn and boisterous expedition.

A natural and prompt alacrity
I find in hardness, and do undertake
These present wars against the Ottomites.

I saw Othello's visage in his mind,
And to his honour and his valiant parts
Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.

So that, dear lords, if I be left behind,
A moth of peace, and he go to the war,
The rites for which I love him are bereft me,
And I a heavy interim shall support
By his dear absence.

...no, when light-wing'd toys
Of feather'd Cupid seal with wanton dullness
My speculative and officed instruments,
That my disports corrupt and taint my business,
Let housewives make a skillet of my helm