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1  He would have nothing to do with other people, but led the life of an outlaw.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IX
2  My poor fellow, you shall not stay here grieving and fretting your life out any longer.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK V
3  Such was I in battle, but I did not care about farm work, nor the frugal home life of those who would bring up children.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
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  Jove, however, sent the ship's mast within my reach, which saved my life, for I clung to it, and drifted before the fury of the gale.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
6  Periboea was the youngest daughter of Eurymedon, who at one time reigned over the giants, but he ruined his ill-fated people and lost his own life to boot.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
7  As for yourself, death shall come to you from the sea, and your life shall ebb away very gently when you are full of years and peace of mind, and your people shall bless you.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
8  Would that I had never gained the day in such a contest, for it cost the life of Ajax, who was foremost of all the Danaans after the son of Peleus, alike in stature and prowess.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
9  The sinews no longer hold the flesh and bones together; these perish in the fierceness of consuming fire as soon as life has left the body, and the soul flits away as though it were a dream.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
10  The mast fell upon the head of the helmsman in the ship's stern, so that the bones of his head were crushed to pieces, and he fell overboard as though he were diving, with no more life left in him.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XII
11  As for myself I kept on puzzling to think how I could best save my own life and those of my companions; I schemed and schemed, as one who knows that his life depends upon it, for the danger was very great.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IX
12  Both these heroes are lying under the earth, though they are still alive, for by a special dispensation of Jove, they die and come to life again, each one of them every other day throughout all time, and they have the rank of gods.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
13  Perhaps he is a vagabond sailor whom she has taken from some foreign vessel, for we have no neighbours; or some god has at last come down from heaven in answer to her prayers, and she is going to live with him all the rest of her life.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VI
14  This daughter of Atlas has got hold of poor unhappy Ulysses, and keeps trying by every kind of blandishment to make him forget his home, so that he is tired of life, and thinks of nothing but how he may once more see the smoke of his own chimneys.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I
15  There fair-haired Rhadamanthus reigns, and men lead an easier life than any where else in the world, for in Elysium there falls not rain, nor hail, nor snow, but Oceanus breathes ever with a West wind that sings softly from the sea, and gives fresh life to all men.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
16  Now, however, return home, and go about among the suitors; begin getting provisions ready for your voyage; see everything well stowed, the wine in jars, and the barley meal, which is the staff of life, in leathern bags, while I go round the town and beat up volunteers at once.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK II
17  He was coming down his pasture in the forest to drink of the river, for the heat of the sun drove him, and as he passed I struck him in the middle of the back; the bronze point of the spear went clean through him, and he lay groaning in the dust until the life went out of him.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK X
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