SACRIFICED in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
Buy the book from Amazon
 Current Search - sacrificed in The Odyssey
1  He picked out two which he brought back with him and sacrificed.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
2  They sacrificed the sheep, goats, pigs, and the heifer, and when the inward meats were cooked they served them round.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XX
3  Then they went to the house of Alcinous to get dinner, and he sacrificed a bull for them in honour of Jove who is the lord of all.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIII
4  As for the ram, my companions agreed that I should have it as an extra share; so I sacrificed it on the sea shore, and burned its thigh bones to Jove, who is the lord of all.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IX
5  But as Telemachus was thus busied, praying also and sacrificing to Minerva in the ship's stern, there came to him a man from a distant country, a seer, who was flying from Argos because he had killed a man.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XV
6  Ulysses looked sternly at him and answered, "If you were their sacrificing priest, you must have prayed many a time that it might be long before I got home again, and that you might marry my wife and have children by her."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXII
7  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
8  Friend," said he, "now that I find you sacrificing in this place, I beseech you by your sacrifices themselves, and by the god to whom you make them, I pray you also by your own head and by those of your followers tell me the truth and nothing but the truth.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XV
9  Their corn and wine remain unwasted in their houses with none but servants to consume them, while they keep hanging about our house day after day sacrificing our oxen, sheep, and fat goats for their banquets, and never giving so much as a thought to the quantity of wine they drink.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVII
10  They are afraid to go to her father Icarius, asking him to choose the one he likes best, and to provide marriage gifts for his daughter, but day by day they keep hanging about my father's house, sacrificing our oxen, sheep, and fat goats for their banquets, and never giving so much as a thought to the quantity of wine they drink.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK II