PEOPLE in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from Dubliners by James Joyce
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - people in Dubliners
1  "The people are in bed and after their first sleep now," he said.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
2  A few people were gathered about the stalls which were still open.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
3  Now and again the clumps of people raised the cheer of the gratefully oppressed.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AFTER THE RACE
4  For the first time in his life he felt himself superior to the people he passed.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
5  She had always had an edge on her, especially whenever there were people listening.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
6  A little knot of people collected on the footpath to pay homage to the snorting motor.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AFTER THE RACE
7  But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
8  One time there used to be a field there in which they used to play every evening with other people's children.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In CLAY
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In CLAY
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In CLAY
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.