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They include all the tribes of the West, Homerically described: the French trappers who first penetrated the wilderness, mountain men, cattlemen, sheepherders, cutthroats, railroad folk, beet tycoons, actors, industrialists, politicians and, finally, ecologists.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chapman often caught the ideas of Homer, and went on writing Homerically; at once the translator and the original.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

He grasps the ponderous hatchet, and, Homerically speaking— “Now toils the hero: trees on trees o’erthrown, Fall crackling round him, and the forests groan.”

From The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains by Webb, Archibald

So when we had recognized the advantage of our position, we began to me-ouw Homerically, so that Whisky and his family might be accused and convicted in our stead.

From Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools by Baker, Emilie Kip

Afterward, he went for Doctor Williams, deriding himself Homerically for playing the second act in the drama of the Good Samaritan, but playing it, none the less.

From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.