It told of the adventures of Odysseus in Thesprotis after the killing of the Suitors, of his
return to Ithaca, and his death at the hands of Telegonis, his son by Circe.
As we topped the ridge and saw the granite gate towers dotting the flowered plain at our feet Ja made a final effort to persuade me to abandon my mad purpose and
return with him to Anoroc, but I was firm in my resolve, and at last he bid me good-bye, assured in his own mind that he was looking upon me for the last time.
Some fine morning he will
return to take command of your vessel."
Oh, how could I not be ardent for Eternity, and for the marriage-ring of rings--the ring of the
return?
There was no game to be met with in the neighborhood; but beavers were occasionally trapped about the river banks, which afforded a scanty supply of food; in the meantime they comforted themselves that some one or other of the foraging detachments would be successful, and
return with relief.
Three days after the
return of the travelers to the earth, the slightest detail of their expedition was known.
Bradley did not
return; nor did we have any word from von Schoenvorts.
In this frame of mind toward her, I waited her
return.
"Partridge," cries Jones, "thou art certainly a coward; I wish, therefore, thou wouldst
return home thyself, and trouble me no more."
I climbed the grass-clad mountain, And my gaze swept far and wide For the rosy lights of a little room, Where I thought my mother sighed: My boy has gone for a soldier, He sleeps not day and night; But my boy is wise, and may yet
return, Though the dead lie far from sight.
I have another treasure here which I must not lose, but I can arrange that it will still be here when I
return for it, and then Barunda's uncle can come back with me to assist me if assistance is needed.
'Yes, I have been to Barsoom again, and--but it's a long story, too long to tell in the limited time I have before I must
return. I have learned the secret, nephew, and I may traverse the trackless void at my will, coming and going between the countless planets as I list; but my heart is always in Barsoom, and while it is there in the keeping of my Martian Princess, I doubt that I shall ever again leave the dying world that is my life.