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1  MOONEY was a butcher's daughter.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
2  Polly Mooney, the Madam's daughter, would also sing.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
3  Captain Sinico encouraged his visits, thinking that his daughter's hand was in question.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
4  For her only one reparation could make up for the loss of her daughter's honour: marriage.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
5  When he learned that the young girl beside her was her daughter he judged her to be a year or so younger than himself.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
6  The Deputy Coroner said it was a most painful case, and expressed great sympathy with Captain Sinico and his daughter.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
7  When Mrs. Kearney arrived with her daughter at the Antient Concert Rooms on Wednesday night she did not like the look of things.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
8  She passed by with her daughter and a quick glance through the open door of the hall showed her the cause of the stewards' idleness.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
9  As the husband was often away and the daughter out giving music lessons Mr. Duffy had many opportunities of enjoying the lady's society.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
10  He sent the older daughter, Kathleen, to a good convent, where she learned French and music, and afterward paid her fees at the Academy.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
11  When the Irish Revival began to be appreciable Mrs. Kearney determined to take advantage of her daughter's name and brought an Irish teacher to the house.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
12  Mrs. Kearney, with her husband and daughter, arrived at the Antient Concert Rooms three-quarters of an hour before the time at which the concert was to begin.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
13  He met her again a few weeks afterwards at a concert in Earlsfort Terrace and seized the moments when her daughter's attention was diverted to become intimate.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
14  There had been no open complicity between mother and daughter, no open understanding but, though people in the house began to talk of the affair, still Mrs. Mooney did not intervene.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
15  Therefore she was not surprised when one day Mr. Holohan came to her and proposed that her daughter should be the accompanist at a series of four grand concerts which his Society was going to give in the Antient Concert Rooms.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
16  She called Mr. Fitzpatrick away from his screen and told him that her daughter had signed for four concerts and that, of course, according to the terms of the contract, she should receive the sum originally stipulated for, whether the society gave the four concerts or not.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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17  Mrs. Mooney had first sent her daughter to be a typist in a corn-factor's office but, as a disreputable sheriff's man used to come every other day to the office, asking to be allowed to say a word to his daughter, she had taken her daughter home again and set her to do housework.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
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