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1  Let him learn to box his corner.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
2  She had been educated in a high-class convent, where she had learned French and music.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
3  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
4  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
5  In the course of the evening, Mrs. Kearney learned that the Friday concert was to be abandoned and that the Committee was going to move heaven and earth to secure a bumper house on Saturday night.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
6  He gave me the impression that he was repeating something which he had learned by heart or that, magnetised by some words of his own speech, his mind was slowly circling round and round in the same orbit.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
7  Sometimes he used to put me through the responses of the Mass which he had made me learn by heart; and, as I pattered, he used to smile pensively and nod his head, now and then pushing huge pinches of snuff up each nostril alternately.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS