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1  "Only off of one of them," said Corley.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
2  Ignatius Gallaher drank off his whisky and shook his head.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
3  The car drove off and the short fat man caught sight of the party.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AFTER THE RACE
4  At this Farrington told the boys to polish off that and have another.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
5  Little Chandler sat in the room off the hall, holding a child in his arms.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
6  Ignatius Gallaher took off his hat and displayed a large closely cropped head.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
7  EIGHT years before he had seen his friend off at the North Wall and wished him godspeed.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
8  First I used to go with girls, you know," said Corley, unbosoming; "girls off the South Circular.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
9  As he passed Lenehan took off his cap and, after about ten seconds, Corley returned a salute to the air.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
10  He set off briskly along the northern side of the Green hurrying for fear Corley should return too soon.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
11  Going down the stairs his glasses became so dimmed with moisture that he had to take them off and polish them.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
12  But the memory of Corley's slowly revolving head calmed him somewhat: he was sure Corley would pull it off all right.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
13  At the corner of Duke Street Higgins and Nosey Flynn bevelled off to the left while the other three turned back towards the city.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
14  Then she took off her working skirt and her house-boots and laid her best skirt out on the bed and her tiny dress-boots beside the foot of the bed.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In CLAY
15  The decisive expression of her great florid face satisfied her and she thought of some mothers she knew who could not get their daughters off their hands.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
16  Three days' reddish beard fringed his jaws and every two or three minutes a mist gathered on his glasses so that he had to take them off and polish them with his pocket-handkerchief.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
17  He had bought them in his bachelor days and many an evening, as he sat in the little room off the hall, he had been tempted to take one down from the bookshelf and read out something to his wife.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
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