All 5 Uses of
stagnant
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Nor in the stagnant bay of Marsh's library where you read the fading prophecies of Joachim Abbas.†
Chpt 3 *
- Sumptuous and stagnant exaggeration of murder.†
Chpt 9
- The lewd suggestions of some faded beauty may console him for a consort neglected and debauched but this new exponent of morals and healer of ills is at his best an exotic tree which, when rooted in its native orient, throve and flourished and was abundant in balm but, transplanted to a clime more temperate, its roots have lost their quondam vigour while the stuff that comes away from it is stagnant, acid and inoperative.†
Chpt 14
- From drains, clefts, cesspools, middens arise on all sides stagnant fumes.†
Chpt 15
- …scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe), numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90 percent of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(stagnant) not circulating or flowing