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1  This time Lenehan was inclined to disbelieve.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
2  THERE was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
3  That was a long time ago; she and her brothers and sisters were all grown up; her mother was dead.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
4  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
5  Then she put it back again in her pocket and gazed into the empty grate for some time without speaking.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
6  He had money and he was popular; and he divided his time curiously between musical and motoring circles.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AFTER THE RACE
7  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
8  When we had lain on the bank for some time without speaking I saw a man approaching from the far end of the field.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
9  The granite stone of the bridge was beginning to be warm and I began to pat it with my hands in time to an air in my head.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
10  I liked better some American detective stories which were traversed from time to time by unkempt fierce and beautiful girls.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
11  How well she remembered the first time she had seen him; he was lodging in a house on the main road where she used to visit.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
12  He asked me where I was going and, when I had told him a second time he asked me did I know The Arab's Farewell to his Steed.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
13  He said that the happiest time of one's life was undoubtedly one's school-boy days and that he would give anything to be young again.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
14  Her time was running out but she continued to sit by the window, leaning her head against the window curtain, inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
15  He plucked at the wires heedlessly, glancing quickly from time to time at the face of each new-comer and from time to time, wearily also, at the sky.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
16  We were reassured: and I brought the first stage of the plot to an end by collecting sixpence from the other two, at the same time showing them my own sixpence.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
17  We spent a long time walking about the noisy streets flanked by high stone walls, watching the working of cranes and engines and often being shouted at for our immobility by the drivers of groaning carts.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
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