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1  But him no woman's eyes had wooed.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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2  It was not nice about the spit in the woman's eye.
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3  Dolan: it was like the name of a woman who washed clothes.
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4  An old woman was about to cross the street, an oilcan in her hand.
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5  A woman entered quietly and deftly where the first penitent had knelt.
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6  After a while a young woman opened the door and brought me out a big mug of milk.
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7  A little boy had been taught geography by an old woman who kept two brushes in her wardrobe.
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8  It was the woman: soft whispering cloudlets, soft whispering vapour, whispering and vanishing.
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9  A young woman dressed in a long pink gown laid her hand on his arm to detain him and gazed into his face.
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10  Statues of women, if Lynch be right, should always be fully draped, one hand of the woman feeling regretfully her own hinder parts.
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11  Before the fire an old woman was busy making tea and, as she bustled at the task, she told in a low voice of what the priest and the doctor had said.
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12  Father Arnall knew more than Dante because he was a priest but both his father and uncle Charles said that Dante was a clever woman and a well-read woman.
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13  The soft beauty of the Latin word touched with an enchanting touch the dark of the evening, with a touch fainter and more persuading than the touch of music or of a woman's hand.
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14  The figure of a woman as she appears in the liturgy of the church passed silently through the darkness: a white-robed figure, small and slender as a boy, and with a falling girdle.
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15  A woman had waited in the doorway as Davin had passed by at night and, offering him a cup of milk, had all but wooed him to her bed; for Davin had the mild eyes of one who could be secret.
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16  They lived in Clane, a fellow said: there were little cottages there and he had seen a woman standing at the half-door of a cottage with a child in her arms as the cars had come past from Sallins.
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