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1  She bore two sons Otus and Ephialtes, but both were short lived.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
2  Nine days did I drift but in the darkness of the tenth night a great wave bore me on to the Thesprotian coast.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
3  And I saw Leda the wife of Tyndarus, who bore him two famous sons, Castor breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
4  Then he dived under the sea, and she in due course bore Pelias and Neleus, who both of them served Jove with all their might.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
5  Meanwhile Calypso came back with some augers, so he bored holes with them and fitted the timbers together with bolts and rivets.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK V
6  Next to her I saw Antiope, daughter to Asopus, who could boast of having slept in the arms of even Jove himself, and who bore him two sons Amphion and Zethus.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
7  Then I saw Alcmena, the wife of Amphitryon, who also bore to Jove indomitable Hercules; and Megara who was daughter to great King Creon, and married the redoubtable son of Amphitryon.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
8  Ulysses sat by the fire, but ere long he turned away from the light, for it occurred to him that when the old woman had hold of his leg she would recognise a certain scar which it bore, whereon the whole truth would come out.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIX
9  When I had done this I hid it under dung, which was lying about all over the cave, and told the men to cast lots which of them should venture along with myself to lift it and bore it into the monster's eye while he was asleep.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IX
10  The only vessel that ever sailed and got through, was the famous Argo on her way from the house of Aetes, and she too would have gone against these great rocks, only that Juno piloted her past them for the love she bore to Jason.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XII
11  I then bored a hole down the middle, and made it the centre-post of my bed, at which I worked till I had finished it, inlaying it with gold and silver; after this I stretched a hide of crimson leather from one side of it to the other.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIII
12  Even thus did we bore the red hot beam into his eye, till the boiling blood bubbled all over it as we worked it round and round, so that the steam from the burning eyeball scalded his eyelids and eyebrows, and the roots of the eye sputtered in the fire.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IX
13  Then I awoke, and knew not whether to throw myself into the sea or to live on and make the best of it; but I bore it, covered myself up, and lay down in the ship, while the men lamented bitterly as the fierce winds bore our fleet back to the Aeolian island.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK X
14  We drove the sharp end of the beam into the monster's eye, and bearing upon it with all my weight I kept turning it round and round as though I were boring a hole in a ship's plank with an auger, which two men with a wheel and strap can keep on turning as long as they choose.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IX
15  She bore Nestor, Chromius, and Periclymenus, and she also bore that marvellously lovely woman Pero, who was wooed by all the country round; but Neleus would only give her to him who should raid the cattle of Iphicles from the grazing grounds of Phylace, and this was a hard task.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
16  Meanwhile Agelaus son of Damastor, Eurynomus, Amphimedon, Demoptolemus, Pisander, and Polybus son of Polyctor bore the brunt of the fight upon the suitors' side; of all those who were still fighting for their lives they were by far the most valiant, for the others had already fallen under the arrows of Ulysses.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXII
17  When the wine had got into his head, he went mad and did ill deeds about the house of Peirithous; this angered the heroes who were there assembled, so they rushed at him and cut off his ears and nostrils; then they dragged him through the doorway out of the house, so he went away crazed, and bore the burden of his crime, bereft of understanding.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXI
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