VEIL in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 With these words she took off her veil and gave it him.
2 She held a veil, moreover, before her face, and was weeping bitterly.
3 And here, take my veil and put it round your chest; it is enchanted, and you can come to no harm so long as you wear it.
4 When they had done dinner they threw off the veils that covered their heads and began to play at ball, while Nausicaa sang for them.
5 When she reached the suitors, she stood by one of the bearing-posts supporting the roof of the cloister, holding a veil before her face, and with a maid on either side of her.
6 When the child of morning rosy-fingered Dawn appeared, Ulysses put on his shirt and cloak, while the goddess wore a dress of a light gossamer fabric, very fine and graceful, with a beautiful golden girdle about her waist and a veil to cover her head.
7 With these words she came down from her upper room, not alone but attended by two of her maidens, and when she reached the suitors she stood by one of the bearing-posts supporting the roof of the cloister, holding a veil before her face, and with a staid maid servant on either side of her.