It has an old-fashioned plot, as it charts the progress of its hero, first met as a 21-year-old loner for whom "my solitude" was "the safest place I knew," on a Ulyssean quest for identity and community.    From Wordnik.com.  [All the Presidents' Literature] Reference

"You mistake the situation," said Catulus Caesar stiffly, his personal pride in tatters thanks to this red-haired Ulyssean trickster; for the truth was that he cared more to extricate himself with dignitas and auctoritas unimpaired than he did about the fate of either his army or the Cimbri.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Man in Rome]

But, as I watch these vessels drifting down through the golden afternoon, or cheerily beating up against the tide on a breezy morning, the man at the wheel is a very model of unconscious grace and almost effortless ascendency; and his shipmates, grouped about him like floating lotos-eaters, have ever a touch of the fine old Ulyssean vagrancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference

Ulyssean mariners listened to the songs of the sirens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference

He was a man of independent and original character, had a Ulyssean experience of men and cities, and an old English name of which he was proud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Redwoods] Reference

With that sort of practical wisdom, or Ulyssean cunning, which marked his mature character, Franklin raised his wharf at the expense of another's house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions] Reference

Had Solinus Polyhistor, in the fourth century, any ground for stating that an ancient Ulyssean altar, written with Greek letters, existed in the recesses of Caledonia?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1] Reference

Nor must Poets themselves (might I a little insist on these contempts, not tempting too far your Lordship's Ulyssean patience) presume to these doors without the truly genuine and peculiar induction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dedication] Reference

Mum: A Story About Silence Ulyssean Soc talk. 2 pm.    From Wordnik.com.  [NOW Magazine] Reference

The feature of the Ulyssean race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odyssey] Reference

But first the Ulyssean wealth survey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odyssey] Reference

After the Wooers; the Ulyssean spouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fourth Book] Reference

The learn'd Athenian, and Ulyssean throne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epigrams] Reference

The Ulyssean wit.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Book] Reference

"And what, my young Ulyssean heroe, 420.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fourth Book] Reference

(Few appreciate, I have often thought, the Ulyssean capacity, derring do, quick readiness in emergencies, practicality, unwritting devotion and heroism, among our American young men and working-people—the firemen, the railroad employés, the steamer and ferry men, the police, the conductors and drivers—the whole splendid average of native stock, city and country.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Central Park Walks and Talks. Specimen Days] Reference

(Few appreciate, I have often thought, the Ulyssean capacity, derring do, quick readiness in emergencies, practicality, unwitting devotion and heroism, among our American young men and working-people -- the firemen, the railroad employes, the steamer and ferry men, the police, the conductors and drivers -- the whole splendid average of native stock, city and country.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference