All 33 Uses of
coy
in
Dubliners
- He was quite unconscious that he was the victim of a plot which his friends, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. M'Coy and Mr. Power had disclosed to Mrs. Kernan in the parlour.†
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- "It doesn't pain you now?" asked Mr. M'Coy.†
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- Mr. M'Coy had been at one time a tenor of some reputation.†
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- "Mucus." said Mr. M'Coy.†
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- "Yes, yes," said Mr. M'Coy, "that's the thorax."†
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- "I suppose you squared the constable, Jack," said Mr. M'Coy.†
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- He was not straight-laced, but he could not forget that Mr. M'Coy had recently made a crusade in search of valises and portmanteaus to enable Mrs. M'Coy to fulfil imaginary engagements in the country.†
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- He was not straight-laced, but he could not forget that Mr. M'Coy had recently made a crusade in search of valises and portmanteaus to enable Mrs. M'Coy to fulfil imaginary engagements in the country.†
Chpt 14
- Mr. M'Coy, who wanted to enter the conversation by any door, pretended that he had never heard the story.†
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- "It's better to have nothing to say to them," said Mr. M'Coy.†
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- "We can meet in M'Auley's," said Mr. M'Coy.†
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- "We can meet at half-seven," said Mr. M'Coy.†
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- "Yes, that's it," said Mr. Cunningham, "Jack and I and M'Coy here—we're all going to wash the pot."†
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- "And I own up," said Mr. M'Coy.†
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- "There's no mistake about it," said Mr. M'Coy, "if you want a thing well done and no flies about, you go to a Jesuit.†
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- "Is that so?" asked Mr. M'Coy.†
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- "The Jesuits cater for the upper classes," said Mr. M'Coy.†
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- "Not like some of the other priesthoods on the continent," said Mr. M'Coy, "unworthy of the name."†
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- Mr. M'Coy said: "Father Tom Burke, that was the boy!"†
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- "Is that so?" said Mr. M'Coy.†
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- … he was a splendid man," said Mr. M'Coy.†
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- "There's not much difference between us," said Mr. M'Coy.†
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- "O yes," said Mr. M'Coy, "Tenebrae."†
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- Mr. M'Coy tasted his whisky contentedly and shook his head with a double intention, saying: "That's no joke, I can tell you."†
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- "We didn't learn that, Tom," said Mr. Power, following Mr. M'Coy's example, "when we went to the penny-a-week school."†
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- "Well, you know," said Mr. M'Coy, "isn't the photograph wonderful when you come to think of it?"†
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- Mr. M'Coy, seeing that there was not enough to go round, pleaded that he had not finished his first measure.†
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- "What's that you were saying, Tom?" asked Mr. M'Coy.†
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- "Ha!" said Mr. M'Coy.†
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- "And what about Dowling?" asked Mr. M'Coy.†
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- "O, don't forget the candle, Tom," said Mr. M'Coy, "whatever you do."†
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- In the bench behind sat Mr. M'Coy alone: and in the bench behind him sat Mr. Power and Mr. Fogarty.†
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- Mr. M'Coy had tried unsuccessfully to find a place in the bench with the others, and, when the party had settled down in the form of a quincunx, he had tried unsuccessfully to make comic remarks.†
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Definition:
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(coy as in: a coy, flirtatious smile) being (or pretending to be) shy