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1  He wore a round hat of hard black felt.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
2  I think he's what you call a black sheep.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
3  The sailors' eyes were blue and grey and even black.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
4  Her blue serge skirt was held at the waist by a belt of black leather.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
5  The bass, Mr. Duggan, was a slender young man with a scattered black moustache.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
6  She wore a short black jacket with mother-of-pearl buttons and a ragged black boa.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
7  The bed was clothed with white bedclothes and a black and scarlet rug covered the foot.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
8  His face was very truculent, grey and massive, with black cavernous nostrils and circled by a scanty white fur.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
9  I felt that his little beady black eyes were examining me but I would not satisfy him by looking up from my plate.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
10  On his long and rather large head grew dry black hair and a tawny moustache did not quite cover an unamiable mouth.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
11  Through the wide doors of the sheds she caught a glimpse of the black mass of the boat, lying in beside the quay wall, with illumined portholes.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
12  She was sitting beside his desk now in an aroma of perfumes, smoothing the handle of her umbrella and nodding the great black feather in her hat.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
13  It was always I who emptied the packet into his black snuff-box for his hands trembled too much to allow him to do this without spilling half the snuff about the floor.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
14  On the mantelpiece of this little office a little leaden battalion of canisters was drawn up and on the table before the window stood four or five china bowls which were usually half full of a black liquid.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In GRACE
15  Then she had to rush out as quickly as she could and do her marketing, holding her black leather purse tightly in her hand as she elbowed her way through the crowds and returning home late under her load of provisions.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
16  He had himself bought every article of furniture in the room: a black iron bedstead, an iron washstand, four cane chairs, a clothes-rack, a coal-scuttle, a fender and irons and a square table on which lay a double desk.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
17  His black clothes were tightly buttoned on his short body and it was impossible to say whether he wore a clergyman's collar or a layman's, because the collar of his shabby frock-coat, the uncovered buttons of which reflected the candlelight, was turned up about his neck.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
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