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1  I chafed against the work of school.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
2  Now, Dillon, I advise you strongly, get at your work or.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
3  You have always some excuse or another for shirking work.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
4  Lily, the caretaker's daughter, did housemaid's work for them.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
5  Of course she had to work hard, both in the house and at business.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
6  "Well, I did a good day's work today," said Mr. Henchy, after a pause.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
7  Jimmy set out to translate into days' work that lordly car in which he sat.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AFTER THE RACE
8  It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
9  Probably in the school they had gone to as girls that kind of work had been taught for one year.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
10  And Johnny used to work in the old gentleman's mill, walking round and round in order to drive the mill.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
11  The man listened to the clicking of the machine for a few minutes and then set to work to finish his copy.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
12  Everyone protested loudly so that he compromised by taking a long draught of stout for he had found the carving hot work.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
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  I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
15  She had hard work to keep the house together and to see that the two young children who had been left to her charge went to school regularly and got their meals regularly.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
16  Our path through life is strewn with many such sad memories: and were we to brood upon them always we could not find the heart to go on bravely with our work among the living.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
17  He had been a canvasser for Wilkins, the Conservative, but when the Conservatives had withdrawn their man and, choosing the lesser of two evils, given their support to the Nationalist candidate, he had been engaged to work for Mr. Tiemey.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
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