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1  He had been a school friend of her father.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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2  One was to Harry; the other was to her father.
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3  Her father was not so bad then; and besides, her mother was alive.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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4  Her father was becoming old lately, she noticed; he would miss her.
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5  She remembered her father putting on her mother's bonnet to make the children laugh.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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6  She had married her father's foreman and opened a butcher's shop near Spring Gardens.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
7  His father, who had begun life as an advanced Nationalist, had modified his views early.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AFTER THE RACE
8  Corley was the son of an inspector of police and he had inherited his father's frame and gait.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
9  Of course, her father had found out the affair and had forbidden her to have anything to say to him.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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10  His father, remonstrative, but covertly proud of the excess, had paid his bills and brought him home.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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11  Even now, though she was over nineteen, she sometimes felt herself in danger of her father's violence.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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12  First of all there was her disreputable father and then her mother's boarding house was beginning to get a certain fame.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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13  Jimmy, under generous influences, felt the buried zeal of his father wake to life within him: he aroused the torpid Routh at last.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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14  Her father used often to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick; but usually little Keogh used to keep nix and call out when he saw her father coming.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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15  Jimmy had a respect for his father's shrewdness in business matters and in this case it had been his father who had first suggested the investment; money to be made in the motor business, pots of money.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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16  Jimmy, too, looked very well when he was dressed and, as he stood in the hall giving a last equation to the bows of his dress tie, his father may have felt even commercially satisfied at having secured for his son qualities often unpurchaseable.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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17  His father, therefore, was unusually friendly with Villona and his manner expressed a real respect for foreign accomplishments; but this subtlety of his host was probably lost upon the Hungarian, who was beginning to have a sharp desire for his dinner.
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