1 Having written them out he lay back on the lumpy pillow, murmuring them again.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 5 2 The wooden slide was drawn back and the faint murmur of a voice troubled the silence.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 3 3 Murmuring faces waited and watched; murmurous voices filled the dark shell of the cave.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 3 4 A low murmur of curiosity ran round the chapel at the discovery of this girlish figure.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 2 5 Under the dome of his tiny hat his unshaven face began to smile with pleasure and he was heard to murmur.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 5 6 His blood began to murmur in his veins, murmuring like a sinful city summoned from its sleep to hear its doom.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 3 7 His blood began to murmur in his veins, murmuring like a sinful city summoned from its sleep to hear its doom.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 3 8 Its murmur besieged his ears like the murmur of some multitude in sleep; its subtle streams penetrated his being.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 2 9 The troubling odour of the long corridors of Clongowes came back to him and he heard the discreet murmur of the burning gasflames.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 4 10 The verses passed from his mind to his lips and, murmuring them over, he felt the rhythmic movement of a villanelle pass through them.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 5 11 His lips began to murmur the first verses over and over; then went on stumbling through half verses, stammering and baffled; then stopped.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 5 12 He felt some dark presence moving irresistibly upon him from the darkness, a presence subtle and murmurous as a flood filling him wholly with itself.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 2 13 He had felt a subtle, dark, and murmurous presence penetrate his being and fire him with a brief iniquitous lust: it, too, had slipped beyond his grasp leaving his mind lucid and indifferent.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 4 14 This idea of surrender had a perilous attraction for his mind now that he felt his soul beset once again by the insistent voices of the flesh which began to murmur to him again during his prayers and meditations.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 4 15 Far away from there in some dark place he would murmur out his own shame; and he besought God humbly not to be offended with him if he did not dare to confess in the college chapel and in utter abjection of spirit he craved forgiveness mutely of the boyish hearts about him.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 3 16 If ever his soul, re-entering her dwelling shyly after the frenzy of his body's lust had spent itself, was turned towards her whose emblem is the morning star, BRIGHT AND MUSICAL, TELLING OF HEAVEN AND INFUSING PEACE, it was when her names were murmured softly by lips whereon there still lingered foul and shameful words, the savour itself of a lewd kiss.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 3 17 The raw morning air whetted his resolute piety; and often as he knelt among the few worshippers at the side-altar, following with his interleaved prayer-book the murmur of the priest, he glanced up for an instant towards the vested figure standing in the gloom between the two candles, which were the old and the new testaments, and imagined that he was kneeling at mass in the catacombs.
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