All 4 Uses of
epistle
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Black candles rise from its gospel and epistle horns.†
Chpt 15 *
- —Is that first epistle to the Hebrews, he asked as soon as his bottom jaw would let him, in?†
Chpt 16
- After completion of laconic epistolary compositions she abandoned the implement of calligraphy in the encaustic pigment, exposed to the corrosive action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall.†
Chpt 17
- …by Leopold Bloom in 1886 concerning the consequences of the passing into law of William Ewart Gladstone's Home Rule bill of 1886 (never passed into law): a bazaar ticket, no 2004, of S. Kevin's Charity Fair, price 6d, 100 prizes: an infantile epistle, dated, small em monday, reading: capital pee Papli comma capital aitch How are you note of interrogation capital eye I am very well full stop new paragraph signature with flourishes capital em Milly no stop: a cameo brooch, property of…†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(epistle) a letter -- especially a long, formal one
or:
a book of the New Testament in the form of a letter from an Apostle