All 15 Uses of
sober
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- By lorries along sir John Rogerson's quay Mr Bloom walked soberly, past Windmill lane, Leask's the linseed crusher, the postal telegraph office.†
Chpt 5 *
- Sober serious man with a bit in the savingsbank I'd say.†
Chpt 7
- Up in the Coombe with chummies and streetwalkers and then the rest of the year sober as a judge.†
Chpt 8
- Ireland sober is Ireland free.†
Chpt 12 *
- The Siamese twins, Philip Drunk and Philip Sober, two Oxford dons with lawnmowers, appear in the window embrasure.†
Chpt 15
- PHILIP SOBER: Take a fool's advice.†
Chpt 15
- PHILIP DRUNK AND PHILIP SOBER: (Their lawnmowers purring with a rigadoon of grasshalms) Clever ever.†
Chpt 15
- PHILIP SOBER: (Gaily) c'était le sacré pigeon, Philippe.†
Chpt 15
- (He laughs) Sober hearsedrivers a speciality.†
Chpt 15
- En route to his taciturn and, not to put too fine a point on it, not yet perfectly sober companion Mr Bloom who at all events was in complete possession of his faculties, never more so, in fact disgustingly sober, spoke a word of caution re the dangers of nighttown, women of ill fame and swell mobsmen, which, barely permissible once in a while though not as a habitual practice, was of the nature of a regular deathtrap for young fellows of his age particularly if they had acquired…†
Chpt 16
- En route to his taciturn and, not to put too fine a point on it, not yet perfectly sober companion Mr Bloom who at all events was in complete possession of his faculties, never more so, in fact disgustingly sober, spoke a word of caution re the dangers of nighttown, women of ill fame and swell mobsmen, which, barely permissible once in a while though not as a habitual practice, was of the nature of a regular deathtrap for young fellows of his age particularly if they had acquired…†
Chpt 16
- Stephen, that is when the accosting figure came to close quarters, though he was not in an over sober state himself recognised Corley's breath redolent of rotten cornjuice.†
Chpt 16
- —It beats me, Mr Bloom confided to Stephen, medically I am speaking, how a wretched creature like that from the Lock hospital reeking with disease can be barefaced enough to solicit or how any man in his sober senses, if he values his health in the least.†
Chpt 16
- …touch was quite in keeping with those italianos though candidly he was none the less free to admit those icecreamers and friers in the fish way not to mention the chip potato variety and so forth over in little Italy there near the Coombe were sober thrifty hardworking fellows except perhaps a bit too given to pothunting the harmless necessary animal of the feline persuasion of others at night so as to have a good old succulent tuckin with garlic de rigueur off him or her next day on…†
Chpt 16
- Needless to say the fumes of his recent orgy spoke then with some asperity in a curious bitter way foreign to his sober state.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(sobering as in: a sobering thought) serious or calm (not silly or excited); or making one serious or less excited
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(sober as in: Talk to me when your sober.) not under the influence of alcohol