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1  His aunts were two small, plainly dressed old women.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
2  Two poor women and a telegram boy were reading the card pinned on the crape.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
3  Farrington's eyes wandered at every moment in the direction of one of the young women.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
4  The women would have their tea at six o'clock and she would be able to get away before seven.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In CLAY
5  The women followed with keen eyes the faded blue dress which was stretched upon a meagre body.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
6  She was always sent for when the women quarrelled over their tubs and always succeeded in making peace.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In CLAY
7  When the cook told her everything was ready she went into the women's room and began to pull the big bell.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In CLAY
8  Presently two young women with big hats and a young man in a check suit came in and sat at a table close by.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
9  He continued scraping his feet vigorously while the three women went upstairs, laughing, to the ladies' dressing-room.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
10  THE matron had given her leave to go out as soon as the women's tea was over and Maria looked forward to her evening out.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In CLAY
11  In Westmoreland Street the footpaths were crowded with young men and women returning from business and ragged urchins ran here and there yelling out the names of the evening editions.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
12  In a few minutes the women began to come in by twos and threes, wiping their steaming hands in their petticoats and pulling down the sleeves of their blouses over their red steaming arms.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In CLAY
13  Then Ginger Mooney lifted her mug of tea and proposed Maria's health while all the other women clattered with their mugs on the table, and said she was sorry she hadn't a sup of porter to drink it in.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In CLAY
14  I know all about the honour of God, Mary Jane, but I think it's not at all honourable for the pope to turn out the women out of the choirs that have slaved there all their lives and put little whipper-snappers of boys over their heads.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
15  We walked through the flaring streets, jostled by drunken men and bargaining women, amid the curses of labourers, the shrill litanies of shop-boys who stood on guard by the barrels of pigs' cheeks, the nasal chanting of street-singers, who sang a come-all-you about O'Donovan Rossa, or a ballad about the troubles in our native land.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY