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1  '"'My friends,' said he, 'I have had a dream from heaven in my sleep.'
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
2  Listen, then, to a dream that I have had and interpret it for me if you can.
The Odyssey By Homer
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3  Be of good courage,' he said, 'daughter of Icarius; this is no dream, but a vision of good omen that shall surely come to pass.
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4  And Penelope answered, "Stranger, dreams are very curious and unaccountable things, and they do not by any means invariably come true."
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5  I dreamed that a great eagle came swooping down from a mountain, and dug his curved beak into the neck of each of them till he had killed them all.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIX
6  I do not think, however, that my own dream came through the gate of horn, though I and my son should be most thankful if it proves to have done so.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIX
7  Then it vanished through the thong-hole of the door and was dissipated into thin air; but Penelope rose from her sleep refreshed and comforted, so vivid had been her dream.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
8  The sinews no longer hold the flesh and bones together; these perish in the fierceness of consuming fire as soon as life has left the body, and the soul flits away as though it were a dream.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
9  By and by morning came and woke Nausicaa, who began wondering about her dream; she therefore went to the other end of the house to tell her father and mother all about it, and found them in their own room.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK VI
10  Presently he soared off into the sky, and left them lying dead about the yard; whereon I wept in my dream till all my maids gathered round me, so piteously was I grieving because the eagle had killed my geese.
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11  When they had passed the waters of Oceanus and the rock Leucas, they came to the gates of the sun and the land of dreams, whereon they reached the meadow of asphodel where dwell the souls and shadows of them that can labour no more.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIV
12  Besides, no matter how much people may grieve by day, they can put up with it so long as they can sleep at night, for when the eyes are closed in slumber people forget good and ill alike; whereas my misery haunts me even in my dreams.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XX