1 If Sid really managed to make anything out of Tom's disjointed mutterings, he kept it to himself.
2 But presently it began to flag a trifle, and grow disjointed.
3 After awhile, he began to remember a few disjointed fragments of what the judge had said: though it had seemed to him, at the time, that he could not hear a word.
4 Apparently as time went on, the feeding of the Under-world, however it was effected, had become disjointed.
5 "Come along, then," said the Englishman, frowning, and speaking with his mouth shut, and, with swinging elbows, he went on in front with his disjointed gait.
6 It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life of its own.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2