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1  There was to be supper, music, cards.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AFTER THE RACE
2  He was awfully fond of music and sang a little.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
3  A few days later he received a parcel containing his books and music.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
4  They drove by the crowd, blended now into soft colours, to a music of merry bells.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AFTER THE RACE
5  She had been educated in a high-class convent, where she had learned French and music.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
6  The two young men walked up the street without speaking, the mournful music following them.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
7  The dark discreet room, their isolation, the music that still vibrated in their ears united them.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
8  His liking for Mozart's music brought him sometimes to an opera or a concert: these were the only dissipations of his life.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
9  The artistes talked among themselves nervously, glanced from time to time at the mirror and rolled and unrolled their music.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
10  People said that she was very clever at music and a very nice girl and, moreover, that she was a believer in the language movement.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
11  As the husband was often away and the daughter out giving music lessons Mr. Duffy had many opportunities of enjoying the lady's society.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
12  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
13  Her house had a floating population made up of tourists from Liverpool and the Isle of Man and, occasionally, artistes from the music halls.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
14  Mrs. Kearney placed her daughter's clothes and music in charge of her husband and went all over the building looking for Mr. Holohan or Mr. Fitzpatrick.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
15  Some new pieces of music encumbered the music-stand in the lower room and on his shelves stood two volumes by Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra and The Gay Science.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
16  He said that there was no time like the long ago and no music for him like poor old Balfe, whatever other people might say; and his eyes filled up so much with tears that he could not find what he was looking for and in the end he had to ask his wife to tell him where the corkscrew was.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In CLAY
17  The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes behind the houses where we ran the gauntlet of the rough tribes from the cottages, to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens where odours arose from the ashpits, to the dark odorous stables where a coachman smoothed and combed the horse or shook music from the buckled harness.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
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