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1  "He is dead," she said at length.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
2  Parnell," said Mr. Henchy, "is dead.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
3  For he lies dead whom the fell gang.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
4  Tizzie Dunn was dead, too, and the Waters had gone back to England.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
5  His soul had approached that region where dwell the vast hosts of the dead.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
6  But as soon as his father-in-law was dead Mr. Mooney began to go to the devil.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
7  The reading of the card persuaded me that he was dead and I was disturbed to find myself at check.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
8  That was a long time ago; she and her brothers and sisters were all grown up; her mother was dead.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
9  Police Sergeant Croly deposed that when he arrived he found the deceased lying on the platform apparently dead.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
10  Ernest was dead and Harry, who was in the church decorating business, was nearly always down somewhere in the country.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
11  Gabriel felt humiliated by the failure of his irony and by the evocation of this figure from the dead, a boy in the gasworks.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
12  If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
13  But Joe cried that God might strike him stone dead if ever he spoke a word to his brother again and Maria said she was sorry she had mentioned the matter.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In CLAY
14  Had he not been dead I would have gone into the little dark room behind the shop to find him sitting in his arm-chair by the fire, nearly smothered in his great-coat.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
15  His own identity was fading out into a grey impalpable world: the solid world itself, which these dead had one time reared and lived in, was dissolving and dwindling.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
16  As he sat there, living over his life with her and evoking alternately the two images in which he now conceived her, he realised that she was dead, that she had ceased to exist, that she had become a memory.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
17  When they were growing up he had never gone for her like he used to go for Harry and Ernest, because she was a girl; but latterly he had begun to threaten her and say what he would do to her only for her dead mother's sake.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
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