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1  I am not fond of crying while I am getting my supper.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
2  With these words she made her mistress leave off crying, and dried the tears from her eyes.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
3  But Ulysses gave a great cry, and gathering himself together swooped down like a soaring eagle.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIV
4  Morning will come in due course, and in the forenoon I care not how much I cry for those that are dead and gone.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
5  At times I cry aloud for sorrow, but presently I leave off again, for crying is cold comfort and one soon tires of it.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
6  At times I cry aloud for sorrow, but presently I leave off again, for crying is cold comfort and one soon tires of it.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
7  As for the day time, he spent it on the rocks and on the sea shore, weeping, crying aloud for his despair, and always looking out upon the sea.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK V
8  The stool hit the cupbearer on his right hand and knocked him down: the man fell with a cry flat on his back, and his wine-jug fell ringing to the ground.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVIII
9  So the two stood bandying hard words, whereon the Achaeans sprang to their feet with a cry that rent the air, and were of two minds as to what they should do.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
10  While Ulysses was thus yielding himself to a very deep slumber that eased the burden of his sorrows, his admirable wife awoke, and sitting up in her bed began to cry.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XX
11  The alarm was soon carried to the city, and when they heard the war cry, the people came out at daybreak till the plain was filled with horsemen and foot soldiers and with the gleam of armour.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
12  As he spoke he drew his keen blade of bronze, sharpened on both sides, and with a loud cry sprang towards Ulysses, but Ulysses instantly shot an arrow into his breast that caught him by the nipple and fixed itself in his liver.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXII
13  I was looking at once after both ship and men, and in a moment I saw their hands and feet ever so high above me, struggling in the air as Scylla was carrying them off, and I heard them call out my name in one last despairing cry.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XII
14  However, I made signs to them by nodding and frowning that they were to hush their crying, and told them to get all the sheep on board at once and put out to sea; so they went aboard, took their places, and smote the grey sea with their oars.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IX
15  I knew all about it, and gave him everything he wanted in the way of bread and wine, but he made me take my solemn oath that I would not tell you anything for some ten or twelve days, unless you asked or happened to hear of his having gone, for he did not want you to spoil your beauty by crying.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
16  When she saw all the corpses and such a quantity of blood, she was beginning to cry out for joy, for she saw that a great deed had been done; but Ulysses checked her, "Old woman," said he, "rejoice in silence; restrain yourself, and do not make any noise about it; it is an unholy thing to vaunt over dead men."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXII
17  We ran away in a fright, but he plucked the beam all besmirched with gore from his eye, and hurled it from him in a frenzy of rage and pain, shouting as he did so to the other Cyclopes who lived on the bleak headlands near him; so they gathered from all quarters round his cave when they heard him crying, and asked what was the matter with him.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IX
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