All 5 Uses of
Abraham
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- No. The scene he was always talking about where the old blind Abraham recognises the voice and puts his fingers on his face.†
Chpt 5
- On the steps of the City hall Councillor Nannetti, descending, hailed Alderman Cowley and Councillor Abraham Lyon ascending.†
Chpt 10
- …of beer, wine and spirits for consumption on the premises, the celebrant blessed the house and censed the mullioned windows and the groynes and the vaults and the arrises and the capitals and the pediments and the cornices and the engrailed arches and the spires and the cupolas and sprinkled the lintels thereof with blessed water and prayed that God might bless that house as he had blessed the house of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and make the angels of His light to inhabit therein.†
Chpt 12 *
- Are you not my dear son Leopold who left the house of his father and left the god of his fathers Abraham and Jacob?†
Chpt 15
- Halcyon days, high school boys in blue and white football jerseys and shorts, Master Donald Turnbull, Master Abraham Chatterton, Master Owen Goldberg, Master Jack Meredith, Master Percy Apjohn, stand in a clearing of the trees and shout to Master Leopold Bloom.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(Abraham) religion: an important figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; tested when God asked him to sacrifice his son