All 10 Uses of
detach
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Haines detached from his underlip some fibres of tobacco before he spoke.†
Chpt 1 *
- By prodding a prong of the fork under the kidney he detached it and turned it turtle on its back.†
Chpt 4
- The young man raised his cap abruptly: the young woman abruptly bent and with slow care detached from her light skirt a clinging twig.†
Chpt 10
- The young woman with slow care detached from her light skirt a clinging twig.†
Chpt 10
- Better detach.†
Chpt 13
- BLOOM: (Detaches her fingers and offers his palm) More harm than good.†
Chpt 15
- Lenehan in yachtsman's cap and white shoes officiously detaches a long hair from Blazes Boylan's coat shoulder.†
Chpt 15
- A Handbook of Astronomy (cover, brown leather, detached, S plates, antique letterpress long primer, author's footnotes nonpareil, marginal clues brevier, captions small pica).†
Chpt 17
- …and salient points caused by foot pressure in the course of walking repeatedly in several different directions, then, inclined, he disnoded the laceknots, unhooked and loosened the laces, took off each of his two boots for the second time, detached the partially moistened right sock through the fore part of which the nail of his great toe had again effracted, raised his right foot and, having unhooked a purple elastic sock suspender, took off his right sock, placed his unclothed right…†
Chpt 17
- …an extensive demesne of a sufficient number of acres, roods and perches, statute land measure (valuation 42 pounds), of grazing turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor, on the other hand, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as Rus in Urbe or Qui si sana, but to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey dwellinghouse of southerly aspect, surmounted by vane and lightning conductor, connected with the earth,…†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(detach) to separate something from something else (physically or emotionally)