All 3 Uses of
intercept
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Needless to say poor Tommy was not slow to voice his dismay but luckily the gentleman in black who was sitting there by himself came gallantly to the rescue and intercepted the ball.†
Chpt 13 *
- It was now for more than the middle span of our allotted years that he had passed through the thousand vicissitudes of existence and, being of a wary ascendancy and self a man of rare forecast, he had enjoined his heart to repress all motions of a rising choler and, by intercepting them with the readiest precaution, foster within his breast that plenitude of sufferance which base minds jeer at, rash judgers scorn and all find tolerable and but tolerable.†
Chpt 14
- In any case he had a consummate amount of cool assurance intercepting people at that hour of the night or morning.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(intercept) to stop or catch someone or something in route