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1  He longed to be alone with her.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
2  I remained alone in the bare carriage.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
3  Now that he was alone his face looked older.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
4  He went often to her little cottage outside Dublin; often they spent their evenings alone.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
5  Her brother and two other boys were fighting for their caps and I was alone at the railings.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
6  He stood in a doorway opposite the office watching to see if the cashier would come out alone.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
7  He scarcely knew what he was eating, feeling her beside him alone, at night, in the sleeping house.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
8  In the bench behind sat Mr. M'Coy alone: and in the bench behind him sat Mr. Power and Mr. Fogarty.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In GRACE
9  She seemed to him so frail that he longed to defend her against something and then to be alone with her.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
10  When the others had gone away, when he and she were in the room in their hotel, then they would be alone together.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
11  But when the restraining influence of the school was at a distance I began to hunger again for wild sensations, for the escape which those chronicles of disorder alone seemed to offer me.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER