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1  But be sure and do as I bid you, for you seem to be a sensible person.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VI
2  To this Nausicaa answered, "Stranger, you appear to be a sensible, well-disposed person."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VI
3  This is what they must have been doing to you; for you always used to be a reasonable person.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIII
4  My grievance is purely personal, and turns on two great misfortunes which have fallen upon my house.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK II
5  Ulysses told Philoetius to stand by this door and guard it, for only one person could attack it at a time.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXII
6  Stockman," answered Ulysses, "you seem to be a very well-disposed person, and I can see that you are a man of sense.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XX
7  And now, O queen, have pity upon me, for you are the first person I have met, and I know no one else in this country.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VI
8  Sir, my father Nestor, when we used to talk about you at home, told me you were a person of rare and excellent understanding.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
9  They tell me you are his son, and you appear to be a considerable person; listen, therefore, and take heed to what I am saying.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVIII
10  I am full of heaviness, but I ought not to sit weeping and wailing in another person's house, nor is it well to be thus grieving continually.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIX
11  My friend," said he, "you are the first person whom I have met with in this country; I salute you, therefore, and beg you to be well disposed towards me.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIII
12  You seem to be a sensible person, do then as I bid you; strip, leave your raft to drive before the wind, and swim to the Phaeacian coast where better luck awaits you.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK V
13  I am the only older person among them; the rest are all young men of Telemachus' own age, who have taken this voyage out of friendship; so I must return to the ship and sleep there.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
14  The king was delighted at this, and exclaimed to the Phaeacians, "Aldermen and town councillors, our guest seems to be a person of singular judgement; let us give him such proof of our hospitality as he may reasonably expect."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
15  We should have run clean out of provisions and my men would have starved, if a goddess had not taken pity upon me and saved me in the person of Idothea, daughter to Proteus, the old man of the sea, for she had taken a great fancy to me.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
16  If anyone wants to have a bout with me let him come on, for I am exceedingly angry; I will box, wrestle, or run, I do not care what it is, with any man of you all except Laodamas, but not with him because I am his guest, and one cannot compete with one's own personal friend.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
17  Stranger," replied Alcinous, "I am not the kind of man to get angry about nothing; it is always better to be reasonable; but by Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, now that I see what kind of person you are, and how much you think as I do, I wish you would stay here, marry my daughter, and become my son-in-law.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
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