All 20 Uses of
sovereign
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- —Four shining sovereigns, Buck Mulligan cried with delight.†
Chpt 1 *
- Four omnipotent sovereigns.†
Chpt 1
- This is for sovereigns.†
Chpt 2
- Myler Keogh, Dublin's pet lamb, will meet sergeantmajor Bennett, the Portobello bruiser, for a purse of fifty sovereigns.†
Chpt 10
- It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sovereigns.†
Chpt 12
- A sovereign fell, bright and new, on the soft pile of the tablecloth.†
Chpt 2
- I changed a sovereign I remember.†
Chpt 5
- Well worth the half sovereign I gave Neary for it.†
Chpt 10
- Then squander a sovereign in dribs and drabs.†
Chpt 11
- A good-looking sovereign.†
Chpt 12
- And he conjured them by Him who died on rood that they should well and truly try and true deliverance make in the issue joined between their sovereign lord the king and the prisoner at the bar and true verdict give according to the evidence so help them God and kiss the book.†
Chpt 12
- Messages of condolence and sympathy are being hourly received from all parts of the different continents and the sovereign pontiff has been graciously pleased to decree that a special missa pro defunctis shall be celebrated simultaneously by the ordinaries of each and every cathedral church of all the episcopal dioceses subject to the spiritual authority of the Holy See in suffrage of the souls of those faithful departed who have been so unexpectedly called away from our midst.†
Chpt 12
- About that present time young Stephen filled all cups that stood empty so as there remained but little mo if the prudenter had not shadowed their approach from him that still plied it very busily who, praying for the intentions of the sovereign pontiff, he gave them for a pledge the vicar of Christ which also as he said is vicar of Bray.†
Chpt 14
- The R. D. F., with our own Metropolitan police, guardians of our homes, the pluckiest lads and the finest body of men, as physique, in the service of our sovereign.†
Chpt 15
- For the rest Eve's sovereign remedy.†
Chpt 15
- Three pounds twelve you got, two notes, one sovereign, two crowns, if youth but knew.†
Chpt 15
- STEPHEN: (Devoutly) And sovereign Lord of all things.†
Chpt 15
- ZOE: (Lifting up her pettigown and folding a half sovereign into the top of her stocking) Hard earned on the flat of my back.†
Chpt 15
- BLOOM: (Quietly lays a half sovereign on the table between bella and florry) So.†
Chpt 15
- Yes, puritanisme, it does though Saint Joseph's sovereign thievery alors (Bandez!)†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(sovereign) of a person: a nation's ruler or head of state
of a political body: not controlled by outside forces -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, a sovereign is a British coin used until 1914.