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1  Thus sang the bard, and both Ulysses and the seafaring Phaeacians were charmed as they heard him.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
2  When she had given it me, and I had drunk it without its charming me, she struck me with her wand.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK X
3  To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus, "If these Achaeans, Madam, would only keep quiet, you would be charmed with the history of his adventures."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVII
4  Thus did he speak, and they all held their peace throughout the covered cloister, enthralled by the charm of his story, till presently Alcinous began to speak.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIII
5  If he had been the most heaven-taught minstrel in the whole world, on whose lips all hearers hang entranced, I could not have been more charmed as I sat in my hut and listened to him.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVII
6  She will mix a mess for you to drink, and she will drug the meal with which she makes it, but she will not be able to charm you, for the virtue of the herb that I shall give you will prevent her spells from working.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK X
7  When I got through the charmed grove, and was near the great house of the enchantress Circe, I met Mercury with his golden wand, disguised as a young man in the hey-day of his youth and beauty with the down just coming upon his face.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK X
8  One man may be of weak presence, but heaven has adorned this with such a good conversation that he charms every one who sees him; his honeyed moderation carries his hearers with him so that he is leader in all assemblies of his fellows, and wherever he goes he is looked up to.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII