Both Uses
mote
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
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- A deaf gardener, aproned, masked with Matthew Arnold's face, pushes his mower on the sombre lawn watching narrowly the dancing motes of grasshalms.†
Chpt 1 *
- —Some people, says Bloom, can see the mote in others' eyes but they can't see the beam in their own.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(mote) a tiny piece of anything
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)