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1  The young men supped in a snug room lit by electric candle-lamps.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AFTER THE RACE
2  Little Chandler sat in the room off the hall, holding a child in his arms.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
3  He caught himself up at the question and glanced nervously round the room.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
4  When she had gone I began to walk up and down the room, clenching my fists.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
5  In the little room downstairs we found Eliza seated in his arm-chair in state.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
6  The high cold empty gloomy rooms liberated me and I went from room to room singing.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
7  In the dark of my room I imagined that I saw again the heavy grey face of the paralytic.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
8  I sat staring at the clock for some time and, when its ticking began to irritate me, I left the room.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
9  The room grew doubly hot and Segouin's task grew harder each moment: there was even danger of personal spite.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AFTER THE RACE
10  She counted all her cards again before sending Mary up to Mr. Doran's room to say that she wished to speak with him.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
11  The room through the lace end of the blind was suffused with dusky golden light amid which the candles looked like pale thin flames.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
12  Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
13  A silence took possession of the little room and, under cover of it, I approached the table and tasted my sherry and then returned quietly to my chair in the comer.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
14  Had he not been dead I would have gone into the little dark room behind the shop to find him sitting in his arm-chair by the fire, nearly smothered in his great-coat.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
15  She remembered the last night of her mother's illness; she was again in the close dark room at the other side of the hall and outside she heard a melancholy air of Italy.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
16  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
17  He was a shabby stooped little drunkard with a white face and a white moustache and white eyebrows, pencilled above his little eyes, which were pink-veined and raw; and all day long he sat in the bailiff's room, waiting to be put on a job.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
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