All 4 Uses of
repository
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- His marital breast is the repository of secrets which decorum is reluctant to adduce.†
Chpt 14 *
- …trussmakers, chimneysweeps, lard refiners, tabinet and poplin weavers, farriers, Italian warehousemen, church decorators, bootjack manufacturers, undertakers, silk mercers, lapidaries, salesmasters, corkcutters, assessors of fire losses, dyers and cleaners, export bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic seal engravers, horse repository hands, bullion brokers, cricket and archery outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and glovers, plumbing contractors.†
Chpt 15
- He fumbled out a picture postcard from his inside pocket which seemed to be in its way a species of repository and pushed it along the table.†
Chpt 16
- …stamps (7 schilling, mauve, imperforate, Hamburg, 1866: 4 pence, rose, blue paper, perforate, Great Britain, 1855: 1 franc, stone, official, rouletted, diagonal surcharge, Luxemburg, 1878), antique dynastical ring, unique relic) in unusual repositories or by unusual means: from the air (dropped by an eagle in flight), by fire (amid the carbonised remains of an incendiated edifice), in the sea (amid flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict), on earth (in the gizzard of a comestible fowl).†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(repository) a place where things are stored -- such as a warehouse or museum
or:
a person or place where things of a type might be found