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1  It is rugged and not a good driving country, but it is by no means a bad island for what there is of it.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIII
2  They seemed as glad to see me as though they had got back to their own rugged Ithaca, where they had been born and bred.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK X
3  Ulysses answered, "Madam, I have foresworn rugs and blankets from the day that I left the snowy ranges of Crete to go on shipboard."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIX
4  And now, you maids, wash his feet for him, and make him a bed on a couch with rugs and blankets, that he may be warm and quiet till morning.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIX
5  Adraste brought her a seat, Alcippe a soft woollen rug while Phylo fetched her the silver work-box which Alcandra wife of Polybus had given her.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
6  I gave him twelve light cloaks, and as many pieces of tapestry; I also gave him twelve cloaks of single fold, twelve rugs, twelve fair mantles, and an equal number of shirts.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIV
7  Then Arete told her maids to set a bed in the room that was in the gatehouse, and make it with good red rugs, and to spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for Ulysses to wear.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
8  On this Helen told the maid servants to set beds in the room that was in the gatehouse, and to make them with good red rugs, and spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for the guests to wear.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
9  When they got to the water side the crew took these things and put them on board, with all the meat and drink; but for Ulysses they spread a rug and a linen sheet on deck that he might sleep soundly in the stern of the ship.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIII