All 3 Uses
Henry Clay
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
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- He removed his large Henry Clay decisively and his large fierce eyes scowled intelligently over all their faces.†
Chpt 10 *Henry Clay = U.S. politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states
- The subsheriff Long John Fanning appears, smoking a pungent Henry Clay.†
Chpt 15
- Bloom's bodyguard distribute Maundy money, commemoration medals, loaves and fishes, temperance badges, expensive Henry Clay cigars, free cowbones for soup, rubber preservatives in sealed envelopes tied with gold thread, butter scotch, pineapple rock, billets doux in the form of cocked hats, readymade suits, porringers of toad in the hole, bottles of Jeyes' Fluid, purchase stamps, 40 days' indulgences, spurious coins, dairyfed pork sausages, theatre passes, season tickets available for all tramlines, coupons of the royal and privileged Hungarian lottery, penny dinner counters, cheap reprints of the World's Twelve Worst Books: Froggy And Fritz (politic), Care of the Baby (infantilic), 50 Meals†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(Henry Clay) U.S. politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)