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  • "No," said Mr. Nash, smiling—and Cass felt, with a surge of amusement and horror, how much his wife despised him at that moment—"we met in Dublin, while I was there on a business trip."†   (source)
  • Cynthia bellowed, clamping a hand over Connor's mouth to interrupt an unintelligible stream of Dublin slang.†   (source)
  • I learned that Nora had taught in a vocational program they had in Dublin; Hester/Anne was in the Puppy Program in Lexington.†   (source)
  • Roarke—no known given name—born 10-06-2023, Dublin, Ireland.†   (source)
  • After Dublin, I went to London, where I had a three-hour meeting with Mrs. Thatcher.†   (source)
  • Actually, he looked the way Bono would if he had chosen to become a successful doctor in Dublin or Cork, or right here in Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • In Belfast or Dublin, people say the same thing: make the agreement work.†   (source)
  • And this was not the only contradiction to the Dublin-black-shawl motif.†   (source)
  • So it was that I found myself in the mid-nineteen seventies in another small house, this time in Co. Wicklow south of Dublin, with a young family of my own and a slightly less imposing radio set, listening to the rain in the trees and to the news of bombings closer to home-not only those by the Provisional IRA in Belfast but equally atrocious assaults in Dublin by loyalist paramilitaries from the north.†   (source)
  • "I was speaking to the Senate of Rome, not to the rabble of Dublin, sir," Colonel Reynolds said to me without a trace of humor in his voice.†   (source)
  • He heard of the Strong Muldoon and tracked him down, taking train from Dublin, then a local bus, and at last Shank's Mares.†   (source)
  • For sale, Double Muscadine Hulls, Road to Dublin, Starry Sky, Strange Spider Web, Hands All Around, Double Wedding Ring.†   (source)
  • Their Dublin Street office was leveled and is now a parking lot.†   (source)
  • When was the last time you updated the Dublin files?†   (source)
  • People in motor cars will always give the workingman a lift to Dublin.†   (source)
  • On a two-hundred-acre estate on the outskirts of Dublin.†   (source)
  • I would have to ring Dublin and see where they stand on sore eyes.†   (source)
  • He took Earhart over to Carrollton, and took Carrollton southwest on his way to Dublin.†   (source)
  • Going to work for Easons he is, working for that pack of freemasons and Protestants above in Dublin.†   (source)
  • They would sit on the chaise school children, feeding the pigeons on Dublin sound.†   (source)
  • It took Root longer than expected to reach Dublin.†   (source)
  • Night falls along the streets of Dublin.†   (source)
  • Isn't it enough that we dragged him all the way from Brooklyn to Belfast to Dublin to Limerick?†   (source)
  • We had two daughters, Bridey that you know, and Kathleen, the nurse above in Dublin.†   (source)
  • He tells me about the great Roosevelt in Washington and the great De Valera in Dublin.†   (source)
  • We were glad of the bed that night, worn out after nights on floors in Dublin and in Grandma's.†   (source)
  • He had his own army cot up there in Dublin with sheets and blankets and a pillow.†   (source)
  • You could go to Dublin and ask for help.†   (source)
  • He stays that way till the motor car comes to take us through the streets of Dublin.†   (source)
  • We distribute The Irish Times, a Protestant paper, run by the freemasons in Dublin.†   (source)
  • Dublin is big and surely there's work there or in the farms around.†   (source)
  • He's going to the Dublin road to see if he can get a lift.†   (source)
  • They accept my brother, Malachy, and he goes off to Dublin to be a soldier and play the trumpet.†   (source)
  • When I was very young, and still in Dublin on the street, I hooked up with a man and his daughter.†   (source)
  • That is why I want to forge new bonds with Dublin.†   (source)
  • "Oh," cried Ida, "I have a friend whose father was born in Dublin!†   (source)
  • When I was a boy in Dublin, there was a woman whose daughter had lost an arm in an accident.†   (source)
  • He himself had been born in Dublin and had spent most of his youth wandering its streets and alleys.†   (source)
  • Why did you tell me about being a kid in Dublin, about your father, the things you did?†   (source)
  • If that wasn't true, I'd be drunk in some Dublin slum, looking for something weaker to pummel.†   (source)
  • The old ways are changing between London and Dublin.†   (source)
  • A legacy from my dear old father who'd earned himself a knife through the gullet in a Dublin alley.†   (source)
  • "Well I'm from old Dublin," he said.†   (source)
  • Unless you live, as do the old ladies who provide the meal, in preelectrification Dublin, where it happens to be the sixth of January.†   (source)
  • Not a very Irish name for a young man from Dublin, nor is it the first name he tried for young Stephen, but it's the one James Joyce settled on for A Portrait of the Artist As ali9ung Man (1916).†   (source)
  • Here's the setup: a young boy—eleven, twelve, thirteen years old, right in there—who has previously experienced life as safe, uncomplicated, and limited to attending school and playing cowboys and Indians in the Dublin streets with his friends, discovers girls.†   (source)
  • Zeitoun still feared getting near his office on Dublin—the armed men were likely still nearby—so he and Nasser had no set itinerary this day.†   (source)
  • The office on Dublin was a total loss.†   (source)
  • Ulysses, as we know from our earlier discussion, is the very long story of a single day in Dublin, June 16, 1904, its structure modeled on Homer's Odyssey (Ulysses being the Latin equivalent of the name of Homer's hero, Odysseus).†   (source)
  • From this little story the condition of paralysis grows into one of Joyce's great themes: Dublin is a city in which the inhabitants are paralyzed by the strictures laid upon them by church, state, and convention.†   (source)
  • But finally, in a drawer she was sure contained nothing of value, she found it, the act of sale for 3015 Dublin.†   (source)
  • The manservant rolled on to his back, caught them by the collars of their donkey jackets and flipped them into Dublin harbour.†   (source)
  • After watching poor old Leopold Bloom stroll around Dublin all day and half the night, running into no end of trouble and recalling great heartbreak in his life, we may well come to feel he is noble in his own way.†   (source)
  • At the right altitude, he could almost superimpose the luminous map on his visor over the actual Dublin streets below him.†   (source)
  • When they reached the building on Dublin, Kathy could see the remains of the homes that had burned to the ground.†   (source)
  • Ahm ...Dublin, let's see.†   (source)
  • He made plans for the following day: he would venture farther toward downtown, he would revisit the I-10 overpass, he would check on the state of their office and warehouse over on Dublin Street.†   (source)
  • Malachy writes from Dublin to say he's fed up and doesn't want to spend the rest of his life blowing a trumpet in the army band.†   (source)
  • These are lovely children you have and I'm from Cork meself and I know what 'tis to be in Dublin without two pennies to rub together.†   (source)
  • His uncle, Foncey, sold linoleum there for years and made enough money to start his own shop in Dublin, where he has his three sons selling linoleum.†   (source)
  • We can loan you the bus fare to Dublin.†   (source)
  • Dear Mrs. O'Brien, Inasmuch as you have not succumbed to the imminence of litigation in our previous epistle be advised that we are in consultation with our barrister above in Dublin.†   (source)
  • No one can ask him to die for Ireland at the age of three, not even Padraig Pearse, who was shot by the English in Dublin in 1916 and expected the whole world to die with him.†   (source)
  • Dad said we were going to Dublin.†   (source)
  • I want to tell him I knew all about Cuchulain when I was three going on four, that I saw Cuchulain in Dublin, that Cuchulain thinks nothing of dropping into my dreams.†   (source)
  • If anyone in your family was the least way friendly to the English in the last eight hundred years it will be brought up and thrown in your face and you might as well move to Dublin where no one cares.†   (source)
  • They try to stop the clacking by moving their jaws back and forth but that only makes it worse and they curse the dentists and the people above in Dublin who made the teeth and while they curse they clack.†   (source)
  • Malachy said, What's Dublin?†   (source)
  • Dad tells her he just walked all the way from the middle of Dublin with his small son, that he left wife and three children waiting for him at the bus place, and if Mr. Heggarty is that busy then we'll wait for him on the doorstep.†   (source)
  • Dad claims these teeth were made for rich people in Dublin and didn't fit so they were passed on to the poor of Limerick who don't care because you don't have much to chew when you're poor anyway and you're grateful you have any class of a tooth in your head.†   (source)
  • The station is always exciting with all the coming and going, people leaning from carriages, crying, smiling, waving good-bye, the train hooting and calling, chugging away in clouds of steam, people sniffling on the platform, the railway tracks silvering into the distance, on to Dublin and the world beyond.†   (source)
  • Nice bloody how do you do ringing down here from Dublin on a fine Saturday to send us tearing around Limerick ripping pages out of an English magazine when I could be at home with a cup of tea and a nice bun and a read of The Irish Press with my feet up on a box under the picture of the Sacred Heart nice bloody how do you do entirely.†   (source)
  • We scoop up everything on the floor and he's happy sitting at his desk at the other end of the office ringing Dublin to tell them how he stormed through shops like God's avenger and saved Limerick from the horrors of birth control while he watches a dancing fire of pages that have nothing to do with John O'London's Weekly.†   (source)
  • Max saw teachers, Mystics, and even an Agent he'd met from the Dublin field office scattered among the hundreds of minor scholars, trainees, and refugees who now waited for their new king.†   (source)
  • Max read the letter twice, grinning as he imagined his friend's Dublin lilt bouncing over each word and syllable.†   (source)
  • Fresh from Dublin, Connor was sporting a wild crown of chestnut curls that framed a pink-checked face so flush with good humor he might have been the Ghost of Christmas Present.†   (source)
  • He moved quietly, as he had grown up doing in the alleyways of Dublin, along wharves and the stinking streets of cities everywhere.†   (source)
  • Dublin?†   (source)
  • His uncle and cousins were Republicans in the War of Independence; they fought with Michael Collins and were there at the Four Courts building in Dublin in April of 1922, when the Brits stormed the building and killed the insurgents, and they were there when Collins was assassinated a few months later, near Cork.†   (source)
  • I also got used to hearing short bursts of foreign languages as the dial hand swept round from BBC to Radio Eireann, from the intonations of London to those of Dublin, and even though I did not understand what was being said in those first encounters with the gutturals and sibilants of European speech, I had already begun a journey into the wideness of the world beyond.†   (source)
  • Dublin.†   (source)
  • It's my first time out of Dublin, much less here in the States," Connor said, taking long strides with his hands stuffed deep in his pockets.†   (source)
  • Do you know Dublin?†   (source)
  • Welcome to the Dublin safe house, Max.†   (source)
  • My grandpa's from Dublin.†   (source)
  • Main branches New Y ork, Chicago, New Los Angeles, Dublin, London, Bonn, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Milan, Sydney.†   (source)
  • It looks like I have to fly to Dublin.†   (source)
  • Access Roarke, Dublin.†   (source)
  • It was from Hospitals' Trust, Ltd., therefore a pitch for a donation or a hospital insurance ad—but I couldn't see why anyone in Dublin would have me on their list.†   (source)
  • In Dublin's fair city, The girls are so pretty...Papa...Papa!†   (source)
  • In Dublin's fair city, The girls are so pretty, Twas there that I first met.... Francie, smilingly happy, had the door open before he could sing the next line.†   (source)
  • And, of course, our favorite mountain, Mount Monadnock's right here—and all around it lie these towns—Jaffrey 'n North Jaffrey, 'n Peterborough, 'n Dublin and (Then pointing down in the audience) there, quite a way's down, is Grover's Corners.†   (source)
  • I feel a ton better since I landed again in dear dirty Dublin....Here you are, Tommy.†   (source)
  • She knew from some lost magazine article that in Dublin were innovators called The Irish Players.†   (source)
  • But all they knew about Ireland was that Dublin was on the Liffey.†   (source)
  • Not Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, Dublin or Glasgow.†   (source)
  • His soul was still disquieted and cast down by the dull phenomenon of Dublin.†   (source)
  • If they didn't pay her to the last farthing she would make Dublin ring.†   (source)
  • The citizens of Dublin will benefit by it.†   (source)
  • "Teddy will have all the cabs in Dublin out," he said.†   (source)
  • Dublin is such a small city: everyone knows everyone else's business.†   (source)
  • Mr. Power, a much younger man, was employed in the Royal Irish Constabulary Office in Dublin Castle.†   (source)
  • He turned his eyes to the grey gleaming river, winding along towards Dublin.†   (source)
  • She lived with her married daughter in Glasgow and came to Dublin on a visit once a year.†   (source)
  • —the Three Graces of the Dublin musical world.†   (source)
  • Those were the days, he said, when there was something like singing to be heard in Dublin.†   (source)
  • He was not in Dublin at the time of the accident as he had arrived only that morning from Rotterdam.†   (source)
  • He went often to her little cottage outside Dublin; often they spent their evenings alone.†   (source)
  • The working-man is not going to drag the honour of Dublin in the mud to please a German monarch.†   (source)
  • His face, which carried the entire tale of his years, was of the brown tint of Dublin streets.†   (source)
  • Miss Kathleen Kearney's musical career was ended in Dublin after that, he said.†   (source)
  • No social revolution, he told her, would be likely to strike Dublin for some centuries.†   (source)
  • From Phoenix Park We marched to Dublin Bay.†   (source)
  • Had Madame de Cintre ever been to Dublin?†   (source)
  • She had had a season in Dublin, and who knows how many in Cork, Killarney, and Mallow?†   (source)
  • They always brought them out in Dublin, but he couldn't wait.†   (source)
  • Ye should see the kenal boats between Dublin and Ballinasloe.†   (source)
  • And that night Mr Casey had not gone to Dublin by train but a car had come to the door and he had heard his father say something about the Cabinteely road.†   (source)
  • Thence the joyful news had flashed all over the world; a thousand cities, chilled by ghastly apprehensions, suddenly flashed into frantic illuminations; they knew of it in Dublin, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, at the time when I stood upon the verge of the pit.†   (source)
  • One can only guess that the original material of his speech was perhaps the surly Kerry brogue; but the degradation of speech that occurs in London, Glasgow, Dublin and big cities generally has been at work on it so long that nobody but an arrant cockney would dream of calling it a brogue now; for its music is almost gone, though its surliness is still perceptible.†   (source)
  • The letters of the name of Dublin lay heavily upon his mind, pushing one another surlily hither and thither with slow boorish insistence.†   (source)
  • Dublin was a new and complex sensation.†   (source)
  • Either they went to the left towards the Dublin mountains or along the Goatstown road and thence into Dundrum, coming home by Sandyford.†   (source)
  • He was alone at the side of the balcony, looking out of jaded eyes at the culture of Dublin in the stalls and at the tawdry scene-cloths and human dolls framed by the garish lamps of the stage.†   (source)
  • Another, a brisk old man, whom Mr Dedalus called Johnny Cashman, had covered him with confusion by asking him to say which were prettier, the Dublin girls or the Cork girls.†   (source)
  • Its drawl was an echo of the quays of Dublin given back by a bleak decaying seaport, its energy an echo of the sacred eloquence of Dublin given back flatly by a Wicklow pulpit.†   (source)
  • His anger against her found vent in coarse railing at her paramour, whose name and voice and features offended his baffled pride: a priested peasant, with a brother a policeman in Dublin and a brother a potboy in Moycullen.†   (source)
  • Dublin, 1904 Trieste, 1914†   (source)
  • To the sellers in the market, to the barmen and barmaids, to the beggars who importuned him for a lob Mr Dedalus told the same tale—that he was an old Corkonian, that he had been trying for thirty years to get rid of his Cork accent up in Dublin and that Peter Pickackafax beside him was his eldest son but that he was only a Dublin jackeen.†   (source)
  • He had made his money as a butcher in Kingstown and by opening shops in Dublin and in the suburbs he had made his money many times over.†   (source)
  • He had sent his son to England to be educated in a big Catholic college and had afterwards sent him to Dublin University to study law.†   (source)
  • Her husband was captain of a mercantile boat plying between Dublin and Holland; and they had one child.†   (source)
  • "Then it is an immoral city," said Little Chandler, with timid insistence—"I mean, compared with London or Dublin?"†   (source)
  • He told me: 'What do you think of a Lord Mayor of Dublin sending out for a pound of chops for his dinner?†   (source)
  • After the break-up at home the boys had got her that position in the Dublin by Lamplight laundry, and she liked it.†   (source)
  • Little boys were sent out into the principal streets of Dublin early on Friday morning with bundles of handbills.†   (source)
  • AFTER THE RACE THE cars came scudding in towards Dublin, running evenly like pellets in the groove of the Naas Road.†   (source)
  • "Ah, well," said Ignatius Gallaher, "here we are in old jog-along Dublin where nothing is known of such things."†   (source)
  • His hot face had leaned forward a little too confidentially and he had assumed a very low Dublin accent so that the young ladies, with one instinct, received his speech in silence.†   (source)
  • When he gained the crest of the Magazine Hill he halted and looked along the river towards Dublin, the lights of which burned redly and hospitably in the cold night.†   (source)
  • He picked his way deftly through all that minute vermin-like life and under the shadow of the gaunt spectral mansions in which the old nobility of Dublin had roystered.†   (source)
  • He had also been fortunate enough to secure some of the police contracts and in the end he had become rich enough to be alluded to in the Dublin newspapers as a merchant prince.†   (source)
  • You could do nothing in Dublin.†   (source)
  • Mr. Browne could go back farther still, to the old Italian companies that used to come to Dublin—Tietjens, Ilma de Murzka, Campanini, the great Trebelli, Giuglini, Ravelli, Aramburo.†   (source)
  • All Dublin is raving about him.†   (source)
  • Dr. Halpin, assistant house surgeon of the City of Dublin Hospital, stated that the deceased had two lower ribs fractured and had sustained severe contusions of the right shoulder.†   (source)
  • He dined in an eating-house in George's Street where he felt himself safe from the society o Dublin's gilded youth and where there was a certain plain honesty in the bill of fare.†   (source)
  • He lived in an old sombre house and from his windows he could look into the disused distillery or upwards along the shallow river on which Dublin is built.†   (source)
  • A MOTHER MR HOLOHAN, assistant secretary of the Eire Abu Society, had been walking up and down Dublin for nearly a month, with his hands and pockets full of dirty pieces of paper, arranging about the series of concerts.†   (source)
  • And then when it came to the time for me to leave Galway and come up to the convent he was much worse and I wouldn't be let see him so I wrote him a letter saying I was going up to Dublin and would be back in the summer, and hoping he would be better then.†   (source)
  • This was the paragraph: DEATH OF A LADY AT SYDNEY PARADE A PAINFUL CASE Today at the City of Dublin Hospital the Deputy Coroner (in the absence of Mr. Leverett) held an inquest on the body of Mrs. Emily Sinico, aged forty-three years, who was killed at Sydney Parade Station yesterday evening.†   (source)
  • We pleased ourselves with the spectacle of Dublin's commerce—the barges signalled from far away by their curls of woolly smoke, the brown fishing fleet beyond Ringsend, the big white sailing-vessel which was being discharged on the opposite quay.†   (source)
  • A PAINFUL CASE MR. JAMES DUFFY lived in Chapelizod because he wished to live as far as possible from the city of which he was a citizen and because he found all the other suburbs of Dublin mean, modern and pretentious.†   (source)
  • He remarked that Paris was awfully jolly, but that for real, thorough-paced entertainment it was nothing to Dublin.†   (source)
  • They had not intended to go over till the summer, but she is so impatient to see them again—for till she married, last October, she was never away from them so much as a week, which must make it very strange to be in different kingdoms, I was going to say, but however different countries, and so she wrote a very urgent letter to her mother—or her father, I declare I do not know which it was, but we shall see presently in Jane's letter—wrote in Mr. Dixon's name as well as her own, to press their coming over directly, and they would give them the meeting in Dublin, and take them back to their country seat, Baly-craig, a beautiful place, I fancy.†   (source)
  • These mails are carried to Dublin by express trains always held in readiness to start; from Dublin they are sent on to Liverpool by the most rapid boats, and thus gain twelve hours on the Atlantic steamers.†   (source)
  • The story was over the regiment in half-an-hour; and that very evening Mrs. Major O'Dowd wrote off to her sister Glorvina at O'Dowdstown not to hurry from Dublin—young Osborne being prematurely engaged already.†   (source)
  • They all got upon the train, which was just ready to start, at half-past one; at dawn of day they were in Dublin; and they lost no time in embarking on a steamer which, disdaining to rise upon the waves, invariably cut through them.†   (source)
  • He has gone back to his dear Dublin; but a few months hence I am to name any evening and he will come over from Ireland, on purpose.†   (source)
  • The idea of comparing the market at Bruges with those of Dublin, although she had suggested it herself, caused immense scorn and derision on her part.†   (source)
  • He even preferred Dublin to London.†   (source)
  • I had moin, and no expince spared, at Madame Flanahan's, at Ilyssus Grove, Booterstown, near Dublin, wid a Marchioness to teach us the true Parisian pronunciation, and a retired Mejor-General of the French service to put us through the exercise.†   (source)
  • The coup d'oeil of the Brussels opera-house did not strike Mrs. O'Dowd as being so fine as the theatre in Fishamble Street, Dublin, nor was French music at all equal, in her opinion, to the melodies of her native country.†   (source)
  • Having tried nine seasons at Dublin and two at Bath and Cheltenham, and not finding a partner for life, Miss Malony ordered her cousin Mick to marry her when she was about thirty-three years of age; and the honest fellow obeying, carried her off to the West Indies, to preside over the ladies of the —th regiment, into which he had just exchanged.†   (source)
  • Elizabethan London lay as far from Stratford as corrupt Paris lies from virgin Dublin.   (source)
    Dublin = the capital, largest city and major port of Ireland
  • [37] English As We Speak It in Ireland, 2nd ed.; London and Dublin, 1910, pp. 179-180†   (source)
  • In the same way the name of /Phoenix/ Park, in Dublin, came from /Fion Uisg/ (=/fine water/).†   (source)
  • THE RECORDER: I will put an end to this white slave traffic and rid Dublin of this odious pest.†   (source)
  • —I believe he is in Dublin somewhere, Stephen answered unconcernedly.†   (source)
  • Thom's Dublin Post Office Directory, 1886.†   (source)
  • Containing the new addresses of all the cuckolds in Dublin.†   (source)
  • Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub. Save it they can't.†   (source)
  • —They want to see the views of Dublin from the top of Nelson's pillar.†   (source)
  • I have moved in the charmed circle of the highest...Queens of Dublin society.†   (source)
  • This is the most historic spot in all Dublin.†   (source)
  • A part of the walls of Dublin, crowded with loyal sightseers, collapses.†   (source)
  • He exhibits to Dublin reporters traces of burning†   (source)
  • Two old Dublin women on the top of Nelson's pillar.†   (source)
  • Several highly respectable Dublin ladies hold up improper letters received from Bloom.†   (source)
  • All these here once walked round Dublin.†   (source)
  • I hear that an actress played Hamlet for the fourhundredandeighth time last night in Dublin.†   (source)
  • Queer idea of Dublin he must have, tapping his way round by the stones.†   (source)
  • A knight of the rueful countenance here in Dublin.†   (source)
  • He voted for it and put on his topboots to ride to Dublin from the Ards of Down to do so.†   (source)
  • The keys of Dublin, crossed on a crimson cushion, are given to him.†   (source)
  • A Dublin fusilier was in that shelter one night and said he saw him in South Africa.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Myers of the Dublin Fire Brigade by general request sets fire to Bloom†   (source)
  • The hoarse Dublin United Tramway Company's timekeeper bawled them off: —Rathgar and Terenure!†   (source)
  • BLOOM: (Seizes her wrist with his free hand) Josie Powell that was, prettiest deb in Dublin.†   (source)
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