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1  With this Telemachus dashed his staff to the ground and burst into tears.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK II
2  We can only shave our heads for them and wring the tears from our cheeks.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
3  With these words she made her mistress leave off crying, and dried the tears from her eyes.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
4  All this he told, but Ulysses was overcome as he heard him, and his cheeks were wet with tears.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
5  As he spoke he kissed his son, and a tear fell from his cheek on to the ground, for he had restrained all tears till now.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVI
6  As he spoke he kissed his son, and a tear fell from his cheek on to the ground, for he had restrained all tears till now.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVI
7  Then Penelope's heart sank within her, and for a long time she was speechless; her eyes filled with tears, and she could find no utterance.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
8  My mother answered, 'Your wife still remains in your house, but she is in great distress of mind and spends her whole time in tears both night and day.'
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
9  Meanwhile Telemachus was furious about the blow that had been given to his father, and though no tear fell from him, he shook his head in silence and brooded on his revenge.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVII
10  I had left her alive when I set out for Troy and was moved to tears when I saw her, but even so, for all my sorrow I would not let her come near the blood till I had asked my questions of Teiresias.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
11  Whoever drinks wine thus drugged cannot shed a single tear all the rest of the day, not even though his father and mother both of them drop down dead, or he sees a brother or a son hewn in pieces before his very eyes.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
12  He was so overcome with dismay that though he tried to speak he could find no words to do so; his eyes filled with tears and he could only sob and sigh, till at last we forced his story out of him, and he told us what had happened to the others.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK X
13  She found him sitting upon the beach with his eyes ever filled with tears, and dying of sheer home sickness; for he had got tired of Calypso, and though he was forced to sleep with her in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so.
The Odyssey By Homer
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14  By and by, however, it seemed as though he was to return safely after all, for the gods backed the wind into its old quarter and they reached home; whereon Agamemnon kissed his native soil, and shed tears of joy at finding himself in his own country.
The Odyssey By Homer
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15  I stayed with Calypso seven years straight on end, and watered the good clothes she gave me with my tears during the whole time; but at last when the eighth year came round she bade me depart of her own free will, either because Jove had told her she must, or because she had changed her mind.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
16  When the bard left off singing he wiped the tears from his eyes, uncovered his face, and, taking his cup, made a drink-offering to the gods; but when the Phaeacians pressed Demodocus to sing further, for they delighted in his lays, then Ulysses again drew his mantle over his head and wept bitterly.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
17  Any one but yourself on returning from so long a voyage would at once have gone home to see his wife and children, but you do not seem to care about asking after them or hearing any news about them till you have exploited your wife, who remains at home vainly grieving for you, and having no peace night or day for the tears she sheds on your behalf.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIII
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