
“Oons, sir! do you say that I am drunk? I say, sir, that I am as sober as a judge.”
Don Quixote in England (1731), Act III, scene xiv
Disputed
“Oons, sir! do you say that I am drunk? I say, sir, that I am as sober as a judge.”
Don Quixote in England (1731), Act III, scene xiv
As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) edited by Louis Klopsch
“I am a road man for the lords of karma.”
“Lord, not you,
it is I who am absent.”
A Door in the Hive (1989), Flickering Mind
“I am exhausted by trying to get along with the Lord.”
Source: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
“I am Lord Nelson. See, here's my fin.”
Indicating his stub of his missing arm during the battle of Copenhagen, as quoted in Nelson and the Hamiltons (1969) by Jack Russell, p. 238
1800s