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1  But the grey face still followed me.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
2  He was shouted at to go on but he still called to her.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
3  A few people were gathered about the stalls which were still open.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
4  The old personal charm was still there under this new gaudy manner.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
5  He stood still, gazing fixedly at the head upon the pile of papers.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
6  The meal was prolonged beyond an hour and still my uncle did not come.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
7  We waited on for a quarter of an hour more but still there was no sign of Leo Dillon.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
8  They looked high up and low down; and still they couldn't see a sight of him anywhere.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
9  Few fellows had talents like his and fewer still could remain unspoiled by such success.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
10  He struggled on with his copy, but when the clock struck five he had still fourteen pages to write.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
11  I was still considering whether I would go away or not when the man came back and sat down beside us again.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
12  Polly knew that she was being watched, but still her mother's persistent silence could not be misunderstood.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
13  He still bought a copy of Reynolds's Newspaper every week but he attended to his religious duties and for nine-tenths of the year lived a regular life.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
14  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
15  Farrington gazed admiringly at the plump arm which she moved very often and with much grace; and when, after a little time, she answered his gaze he admired still more her large dark brown eyes.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
16  I too listened; but there was no sound in the house: and I knew that the old priest was lying still in his coffin as we had seen him, solemn and truculent in death, an idle chalice on his breast.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
17  But still and all he kept on saying that before the summer was over he'd go out for a drive one fine day just to see the old house again where we were all born down in Irishtown and take me and Nannie with him.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
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