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1  "I wish it may prove so," answered Telemachus.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XV
2  He wants an escort and wishes to have the matter settled.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
3  I will not refuse you," replied Telemachus, "if you wish to join us.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XV
4  Ask Menelaus to send you home at once if you wish to find your excellent mother still there when you get back.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XV
5  As for your oath we will let it alone, but I only wish he may come, as do Penelope, his old father Laertes, and his son Telemachus.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
6  I wish first and foremost to propitiate the great goddess Minerva, who manifested herself visibly to me during yesterday's festivities.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
7  I wish, child," answered Euryclea, "that you would take the management of the house into your own hands altogether, and look after all the property yourself.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIX
8  If my master had grown old here he would have done great things by me, but he is gone, and I wish that Helen's whole race were utterly destroyed, for she has been the death of many a good man.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
9  The suitors in the covered cloister were now in an uproar, and one would turn towards his neighbour, saying, "I wish the stranger had gone somewhere else, bad luck to him, for all the trouble he gives us."
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVIII
10  My dear," answered Penelope, "I have no wish to set myself up, nor to depreciate you; but I am not struck by your appearance, for I very well remember what kind of a man you were when you set sail from Ithaca.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIII
11  I wish Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo would break the neck of every one of these wooers of yours, some inside the house and some out; and I wish they might all be as limp as Irus is over yonder in the gate of the outer court.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVIII
12  But she would not give him full victory as yet, for she wished still further to prove his own prowess and that of his brave son, so she flew up to one of the rafters in the roof of the cloister and sat upon it in the form of a swallow.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXII
13  As for my not coming near you, I was never uneasy about you, for I was certain you would get back safely though you would lose all your men, and I did not wish to quarrel with my uncle Neptune, who never forgave you for having blinded his son.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIII
14  But Ulysses stuck to the keel of the ship and was drifted on to the land of the Phaeacians, who are near of kin to the immortals, and who treated him as though he had been a god, giving him many presents, and wishing to escort him home safe and sound.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIX
15  Even so I wish that the gods who live in heaven would hide me from mortal sight, or that fair Diana might strike me, for I would fain go even beneath the sad earth if I might do so still looking towards Ulysses only, and without having to yield myself to a worse man than he was.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XX
16  Stranger," replied Alcinous, "I am not the kind of man to get angry about nothing; it is always better to be reasonable; but by Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, now that I see what kind of person you are, and how much you think as I do, I wish you would stay here, marry my daughter, and become my son-in-law.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
17  Son of Atreus," replied Telemachus, "do not press me to stay longer; I should be contented to remain with you for another twelve months; I find your conversation so delightful that I should never once wish myself at home with my parents; but my crew whom I have left at Pylos are already impatient, and you are detaining me from them.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
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