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1  I did not miss what I aimed at, and I was not long in stringing my bow.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXI
2  The girl, therefore, threw a ball at one of the maids, which missed her and fell into deep water.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VI
3  Hear me," he cried, "you god who visited me yesterday, and bade me sail the seas in search of my father who has so long been missing.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK II
4  On this Telemachus spoke fiercely to Ctesippus, "It is a good thing for you," said he, "that the stranger turned his head so that you missed him."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XX
5  As for yourself, let me prevail upon you to take the best ship you can get, with a crew of twenty men, and go in quest of your father who has so long been missing.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I
6  Give me, then, a ship and a crew of twenty men to take me hither and thither, and I will go to Sparta and to Pylos in quest of my father who has so long been missing.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK II
7  He counted his goodly coppers and cauldrons, his gold and all his clothes, but there was nothing missing; still he kept grieving about not being in his own country, and wandered up and down by the shore of the sounding sea bewailing his hard fate.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIII