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1  That's what the woman we had in to wash him said.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
2  A woman came running down the front steps and coughed.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
3  At the corner of Hume Street a young woman was standing.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
4  She was a woman who was quite able to keep things to herself: a determined woman.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
5  He approached the young woman and, without saluting, began at once to converse with her.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
6  They talked for a few moments and then the young woman went down the steps into the area of a house.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
7  She was an old garrulous woman, a pawnbroker's widow, who collected used stamps for some pious purpose.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
8  I pretended to pray but I could not gather my thoughts because the old woman's mutterings distracted me.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
9  They were walking quickly, the young woman taking quick short steps, while Corley kept beside her with his long stride.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
10  My aunt went in and the old woman, seeing that I hesitated to enter, began to beckon to me again repeatedly with her hand.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
11  He leaned against the lamp-post and kept his gaze fixed on the part from which he expected to see Corley and the young woman return.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
12  As he approached Hume Street corner he found the air heavily scented and his eyes made a swift anxious scrutiny of the young woman's appearance.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
13  All the work we had, she and me, getting in the woman to wash him and then laying him out and then the coffin and then arranging about the Mass in the chapel.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
14  He took them as a warning and, glancing back towards the house which the young woman had entered to see that he was not observed, he ran eagerly across the road.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
15  As he walked on slowly, timing his pace to theirs, he watched Corley's head which turned at every moment towards the young woman's face like a big ball revolving on a pivot.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
16  In his imagination he beheld the pair of lovers walking along some dark road; he heard Corley's voice in deep energetic gallantries and saw again the leer of the young woman's mouth.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
17  The old woman pointed upwards interrogatively and, on my aunt's nodding, proceeded to toil up the narrow staircase before us, her bowed head being scarcely above the level of the banister-rail.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
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