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1  Corley ran his tongue swiftly along his upper lip.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
2  He moistened his upper lip by running his tongue along it.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
3  Little Chandler looked at it, pausing at the thin tight lips.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
4  Soon the name of Miss Kathleen Kearney began to be heard often on people's lips.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
5  Her face looked so serious and weary that the words would not pass Gabriel's lips.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
6  Between these rival features the lips appeared very long and shapeless and colourless.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
7  He had coarse features, a blunt nose, a convex and receding brow, tumid and protruded lips.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
8  He read it not aloud, but moving his lips as a priest does when he reads the prayers Secreto.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
9  Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
10  Little Chandler smiled, looked confusedly at his glass and bit his lower lip with three childishly white front teeth.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
11  "I'm the man for the ladies," said Mr. Browne, pursing his lips until his moustache bristled and smiling in all his wrinkles.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
12  It began to confess to me in a murmuring voice and I wondered why it smiled continually and why the lips were so moist with spittle.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
13  Though she was stout in build and stood erect, her slow eyes and parted lips gave her the appearance of a woman who did not know where she was or where she was going.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
14  Then he imitated Farrington, saying, "And here was my nabs, as cool as you please," while Farrington looked at the company out of his heavy dirty eyes, smiling and at times drawing forth stray drops of liquor from his moustache with the aid of his lower lip.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS