All 8 Uses of
writ
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- He lays aside the lapboard whereon he drafts his bills of costs for the eyes of master Goff and master Shapland Tandy, filing consents and common searches and a writ of Duces Tecum.†
Chpt 3
- Writ, I ween, 'twas not my wish In lean unlovely English.†
Chpt 9 *
- —Then our friend's writ is not worth the paper it's printed on, Ben Dollard said.†
Chpt 10
- —You can tell Barabbas from me, Ben Dollard said, that he can put that writ where Jacko put the nuts.†
Chpt 10
- Playing cards, hobnobbing with flash toffs with a swank glass in their eye, adrinking fizz and he half smothered in writs and garnishee orders.†
Chpt 12
- And he showed them glistering coins of the tribute and goldsmith notes the worth of two pound nineteen shilling that he had, he said, for a song which he writ.†
Chpt 14
- He gave them then a much admirable hymen minim by those delicate poets Master John Fletcher and Master Francis Beaumont that is in their Maid's Tragedy that was writ for a like twining of lovers: To bed, to bed was the burden of it to be played with accompanable concent upon the virginals.†
Chpt 14
- —O that, Stephen expostulated, has been proved conclusively by several of the bestknown passages in Holy Writ, apart from circumstantial evidence.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(writ) law: an order issued by a court or judicial officer
or more rarely:
archaic term for written or wrote