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1  Then Helen took her seat, put her feet upon the footstool, and began to question her husband.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
2  His hands and feet are just like Ulysses; so is his hair, with the shape of his head and the expression of his eyes.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
3  He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, girded his sword about his shoulder, and left his room looking like an immortal god.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK II
4  There is nothing that does any one so much credit all his life long as the showing himself a proper man with his hands and feet.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
5  He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, girded his sword about his shoulders, and left his room looking like an immortal god.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
6  At last I let go with my hands and feet, and fell heavily into the sea, hard by my raft on to which I then got, and began to row with my hands.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XII
7  No man though he had twenty hands and twenty feet could get a foothold on it and climb it, for it runs sheer up, as smooth as though it had been polished.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XII
8  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.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
9  Then I stopped the ears of all my men, and they bound me hands and feet to the mast as I stood upright on the cross piece; but they went on rowing themselves.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XII
10  He will cut the ground from under his own feet if he does; but I make no exception as regards any one else, for I want to have the matter out and know which is the best man.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
11  As soon as she had done washing me and anointing me with oil, she arrayed me in a good cloak and shirt and led me to a richly decorated seat inlaid with silver; there was a footstool also under my feet.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK X
12  She set me on a richly decorated seat inlaid with silver, there was a footstool also under my feet, and she mixed a mess in a golden goblet for me to drink; but she drugged it, for she meant me mischief.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK X
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  She stood right in front of Ulysses, and he doubted whether he should go up to her, throw himself at her feet, and embrace her knees as a suppliant, or stay where he was and entreat her to give him some clothes and show him the way to the town.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VI
15  Presently the servant came back with Demodocus's lyre, and he took his place in the midst of them, whereon the best young dancers in the town began to foot and trip it so nimbly that Ulysses was delighted with the merry twinkling of their feet.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
16  When they had done throwing the ball straight up into the air they began to dance, and at the same time kept on throwing it backwards and forwards to one another, while all the young men in the ring applauded and made a great stamping with their feet.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
17  I went up to this club and cut off about six feet of it; I then gave this piece to the men and told them to fine it evenly off at one end, which they proceeded to do, and lastly I brought it to a point myself, charring the end in the fire to make it harder.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IX
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