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high stone-and-timber wall around Polyphemus’s yard

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high stone-and-timber wall around Polyphemus’s yard
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livestock yard outside Polyphemus’s cave1 observation
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The high stone-and-timber wall enclosed the livestock yard outside Polyphemus’s cave.

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“‘I went on board, bidding my men to do so also and loose the hawsers; so they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars. When we got to the land, which was not far, there, on the face of a cliff near the sea, we saw a great cave overhung with laurels. It was a station for a great many sheep and goats, and outside there was a large yard, with a high wall round it made of stones built into the ground and of trees both pine and oak. This was the abode of a huge monster who was then away from home shepherding his flocks. He would have nothing to do with other people, but led the life of an outlaw. He was a horrid creature, not like a human being at all, but resembling rather some crag that stands out boldly against the sky on the top of a high mountain.”

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A high wall of grounded stones and pine and oak trees encloses Polyphemus’s yard.

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“a high wall round it made of stones built into the ground and of trees both pine and oak.”

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“a high wall round it made of stones built into the ground and of trees both pine and oak”

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Book 9 · Passage 11

‘I went on board, bidding my men to do so also and loose the hawsers; so they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars. When we got to the land, which was not far, there, on the face of a cliff near the sea, we saw a great cave overhung with laurels. It was a station for a great many sheep and goats, and outside there was a large yard, with a high wall round it made of stones built into the ground and of trees both pine and oak. This was the abode of a huge monster who was then away from home shepherding his flocks. He would have nothing to do with other people, but led the life of an outlaw. He was a horrid creature, not like a human being at all, but resembling rather some crag that stands out boldly against the sky on the top of a high mountain.