SOMETHING in Classic Quotes

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1  Hush, my dears, for I want to say something.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VI
2  Have a try therefore at something, and banish all sorrow from your mind.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
3  Then Ulysses said, "Sir, it is right that I should say something myself."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVI
4  Listen to me," said he, "Eumaeus and the rest of you; when I have said a prayer I will tell you something.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
5  There is something else, however, about which I should like to ask Nestor, for he knows much more than any one else does.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
6  I will bring as much gold as I can lay my hands on, and there is something else also that I can do towards paying my fare.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XV
7  The gods arranged all this, and sent them their misfortunes in order that future generations might have something to sing about.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
8  I too, my son," said she, "have something for you as a keepsake from the hand of Helen; it is for your bride to wear upon her wedding day.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XV
9  Then Ulysses said, "Sir, I do not want to stay here; a beggar can always do better in town than country, for any one who likes can give him something."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVII
10  '"'You dare devil,' replied the goddess, 'you are always wanting to fight somebody or something; you will not let yourself be beaten even by the immortals.'
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XII
11  Now goddess," he answered, "there is something behind all this; you cannot be really meaning to help me home when you bid me do such a dreadful thing as put to sea on a raft.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK V
12  You are always taking something of that sort in your head," replied Minerva, "and that is why I cannot desert you in your afflictions; you are so plausible, shrewd and shifty.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIII
13  Servants want sometimes to see their mistress and have a talk with her; they like to have something to eat and drink at the house, and something too to take back with them into the country.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XV
14  To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus, "Old man, you will neither get paid for bringing good news, nor will Ulysses ever come home; drink your wine in peace, and let us talk about something else."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
15  I have enough to eat and drink, and can find something for any respectable stranger who comes here; but there is no getting a kind word or deed out of my mistress, for the house has fallen into the hands of wicked people.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XV
16  They all swore as she told them, and when they had completed their oath the woman said, 'Hush; and if any of your men meets me in the street or at the well, do not let him speak to me, for fear some one should go and tell my master, in which case he would suspect something.'
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XV
17  I stayed there for seven years and got together much money among the Egyptians, for they all gave me something; but when it was now going on for eight years there came a certain Phoenician, a cunning rascal, who had already committed all sorts of villainy, and this man talked me over into going with him to Phoenicia, where his house and his possessions lay.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
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