All 3 Uses of
hoary
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- The voice of dark age, of unlove, earth's fatigue made grave approach and painful, come from afar, from hoary mountains, called on good men and true.†
Chpt 11 *
- The learned prelate who administered the last comforts of holy religion to the hero martyr when about to pay the death penalty knelt in a most christian spirit in a pool of rainwater, his cassock above his hoary head, and offered up to the throne of grace fervent prayers of supplication.†
Chpt 12
- She is a hoary pandemonium of ills, enlarged glands, mumps, quinsy, bunions, hayfever, bedsores, ringworm, floating kidney, Derbyshire neck, warts, bilious attacks, gallstones, cold feet, varicose veins.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(hoary) old-fashioned
or more rarely: appearing old
even more rarely: covered with fine whitish hairs or down