All 6 Uses of
humane
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Humane doctors, most of them.†
Chpt 8
- —I never broach the subject, Davy Byrne said humanely, if I see a gentleman is in trouble that way.†
Chpt 8 *
- He was humane and honoured there.†
Chpt 10
- Humane methods.†
Chpt 12
- And humanely his driver waited till he (or she) had ended, patient in his scythed car.†
Chpt 16
- As addenda, a tennis and fives court, a shrubbery, a glass summerhouse with tropical palms, equipped in the best botanical manner, a rockery with waterspray, a beehive arranged on humane principles, oval flowerbeds in rectangular grassplots set with eccentric ellipses of scarlet and chrome tulips, blue scillas, crocuses, polyanthus, sweet William, sweet pea, lily of the valley (bulbs obtainable from sir James W. Mackey (Limited) wholesale and retail seed and bulb merchants and…†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(humane) characterized by kindness -- especially a motivation to reduce suffering of others or of animals