"After he in his memory and imagination had made up, struck out, and discarded many names, now adding to and now subtracting from the list, he finall… - Miguel de Cervantes

"After he in his memory and imagination had made up, struck out, and discarded many names, now adding to and now subtracting from the list, he finally hit upon "Rocinante," a name that impressed him as being sonorous and at the same time indicative of what the steed had been when it was but a hack, whereas now it was nothing other than the first and foremost of all the hacks in the world."