1 "The people are in bed and after their first sleep now," he said.
2 A few people were gathered about the stalls which were still open.
3 Now and again the clumps of people raised the cheer of the gratefully oppressed.
4 For the first time in his life he felt himself superior to the people he passed.
5 She had always had an edge on her, especially whenever there were people listening.
6 A little knot of people collected on the footpath to pay homage to the snorting motor.
7 But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
8 One time there used to be a field there in which they used to play every evening with other people's children.
9 She went into Downes's cake-shop but the shop was so full of people that it was a long time before she could get herself attended to.
10 The tram was full and she had to sit on the little stool at the end of the car, facing all the people, with her toes barely touching the floor.
11 He knew that people went there after the theatre to eat oysters and drink liqueurs; and he had heard that the waiters there spoke French and German.
12 At Westland Row Station a crowd of people pressed to the carriage doors; but the porters moved them back, saying that it was a special train for the bazaar.
13 She used to have such a bad opinion of Protestants but now she thought they were very nice people, a little quiet and serious, but still very nice people to live with.
14 Most people considered Lenehan a leech but, in spite of this reputation, his adroitness and eloquence had always prevented his friends from forming any general policy against him.
15 There had been no open complicity between mother and daughter, no open understanding but, though people in the house began to talk of the affair, still Mrs. Mooney did not intervene.
16 I sat up on the coping of the bridge admiring my frail canvas shoes which I had diligently pipeclayed overnight and watching the docile horses pulling a tramload of business people up the hill.
17 He looked about him, but his sight was confused by the shining of many red and green wine-glasses The bar seemed to him to be full of people and he felt that the people were observing him curiously.
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