Adventurous wandering

Usage examples of odyssey.

The date was Tuesday, February 17, 1778, and, as Adams had no way of knowing, it marked the beginning of what would become a singular odyssey, in which he would journey farther in all, both by sea and land, than any other leader of the American cause.

There be passed a quiet afternoon, nursing a light fever in his bunk, thinking of Hardman and his strange southward odyssey, and of the silt banks glowing like luminous gold in the meridian sun, both forbidding and inviting, like the lost but forever beckoning and unattainable shores of the amnionic paradise.

Thus the child is born and embraced by the mother, the liberated hero ascends from the underworld to return home after his far-flung odyssey.

Zonaras states that the fire which took place at Constantinople in the reign of Emperor Basiliscus consumed, among other valuable remains of antiquity, a copy of the Iliad and Odyssey, and some other ancient poems, written in letters of gold upon material formed of the intestines of a serpent.

A Space Odyssey, she oohs and aahs, then the camera records his blowjob at considerably more length and with considerably more interest to the tune of music from an airport bar.

Light seemed to gleam through the dust of the freckles as she walked beside him, across the brilliant green of the grass toward Henley Street Still, she continued her odyssey of life with her stepmother and -sister.

If we add together the three great poems of antiquity -- the twenty-four books of the Iliad, the twenty-four books of the Odyssey, and the twelve books of the Aeneid -- we get at the dimensions of only one-half of The Faerie Queen.

The painful unraveling of the jade shrouds odyssey showed in the strain and weariness on Joe Tangs face.

Likewise in the classical afterworlds of the Odyssey and Aeneid, Odysseus and Aeneas readily recognize and can talk with the shades of those recently dead.

Odyssey in French on the rear table, beside works by Anatole France, Cervantes, and Hugh Lofting.

After talking with both children, Celia decided that she was comfortable, and in that mood, in early March, flew from New York to Paris with Andrew for the beginning of their get-away-from-it-all odyssey.

Odyssey had just arrived at Station Deep Space 9, a Bajoran station administrated by Starfleet and commanded by Sisko.

By their accord, they could launch the Zenit in just eight hours from the time the Odyssey was ballasted and stabilized.

The birthplaces of the Newman children reflected the nomadic odyssey of a typical American military family.

Parkhurst, a strong, noble-looking fellow who was far more tolerable than most antivice crusaders, had enlisted a private detective, Charlie Gardner, as a guide for the odyssey.