All 15 Uses of
deed
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- You look as though you had done the deed.†
Chpt 7deed = notable achievement
- You must take the will for the deed.†
Chpt 7
- Two deeds are rank in that ghost's mind: a broken vow and the dullbrained yokel on whom her favour has declined, deceased husband's brother.†
Chpt 9 *deeds = notable achievements
- But he, the young chief of the O'Bergan's, could ill brook to be outdone in generous deeds but gave therefor with gracious gesture a testoon of costliest bronze.†
Chpt 12
- Their deadly coil they grasp: yea, and therein they lead to Erebus whatsoever wight hath done a deed of blood for I will on nowise suffer it even so saith the Lord.†
Chpt 12deed = notable achievement
- Nay, she had even witnessed in the home circle deeds of violence caused by intemperance and had seen her own father, a prey to the fumes of intoxication, forget himself completely for if there was one thing of all things that Gerty knew it was that the man who lifts his hand to a woman save in the way of kindness, deserves to be branded as the lowest of the low.†
Chpt 13deeds = notable achievements
- Master Lenehan at this made return that he had heard of those nefarious deeds and how, as he heard hereof counted, he had besmirched the lily virtue of a confiding female which was corruption of minors and they all intershowed it too, waxing merry and toasting to his fathership.†
Chpt 14
- By heaven, Theodore Purefoy, thou hast done a doughty deed and no botch!†
Chpt 14deed = notable achievement
- By word and deed he frankly encouraged a nocturnal strumpet to deposit fecal and other matter in an unsanitary outhouse attached to empty premises.†
Chpt 15
- May I bring two men chums to witness the deed and take a snapshot?†
Chpt 15
- Everyone according to his needs or everyone according to his deeds.†
Chpt 16deeds = notable achievements
- was, he was bound to admit, an exceedingly plucky deed which he could not too highly praise, so that frankly he was utterly at a loss to fathom what earthly reason could be at the back of it except he put it down to sheer cussedness or jealousy, pure and simple.†
Chpt 16deed = notable achievement
- He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed not by him should by him not be told.†
Chpt 17
- He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed not by him should by him not be told.†
Chpt 17
- Given a guarantee equal to the sum sought, the support, by deed of gift and transfer vouchers during donor's lifetime or by bequest after donor's painless extinction, of eminent financiers (Blum Pasha, Rothschild Guggenheim, Hirsch, Montefiore, Morgan, Rockefeller) possessing fortunes in 6 figures, amassed during a successful life, and joining capital with opportunity the thing required was done.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(deed as in: signed the deed) a legal document indicating ownership of propertyThis is often in reference to a trust deed which transfers legal title of property to a trustee. Frequently, the trustee is a bank and title is entrusted to the bank until a loan is paid off.
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(2)
(deed as in: did a good deed) a notable act