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1  He will be giving us trouble presently; may Jove take him before he is full grown.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
2  If my master had grown old here he would have done great things by me, but he is gone, and I wish that Helen's whole race were utterly destroyed, for she has been the death of many a good man.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
3  So let me have no more unseemly behaviour from any of you, for I am grown up now to the knowledge of good and evil and understand what is going on, instead of being the child that I have been heretofore.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XX
4  They left their sports as he told them, and when they were within the house, they laid their cloaks on the benches and seats inside, and then sacrificed some sheep, goats, pigs, and a heifer, all of them fat and well grown.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVII
5  In the end I deemed that this plan would be the best; the male sheep were well grown, and carried a heavy black fleece, so I bound them noiselessly in threes together, with some of the withies on which the wicked monster used to sleep.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IX
6  As long as my son was still young, and unable to understand, he would not hear of my leaving my husband's house, but now that he is full grown he begs and prays me to do so, being incensed at the way in which the suitors are eating up his property.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIX
7  When you were younger you had a greater sense of propriety; now, however, that you are grown up, though a stranger to look at you would take you for the son of a well to do father as far as size and good looks go, your conduct is by no means what it should be.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVIII