Ulysses
James Joyce ยท 150 passages
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror...
43 wordsStephen, an elbow rested on the jagged granite, leaned his palm against his brow and gazed at the...
80 wordsWoodshadows floated silently by through the morning peace from the stairhead seaward where he...
58 wordsHe watched her pour into the measure and thence into the jug rich white milk, not hers. Old...
75 wordsThe proud potent titles clanged over Stephens memory the triumph of their brazen bells. et unam...
73 wordsHis hand turned the page over. He leaned back and went on again, having just remembered. Of him...
65 wordsAnd now his strongroom for the gold. Stephens embarrassed hand moved over the shells heaped in the...
49 wordsFoot and mouth disease. Known as Kochs preparation. Serum and virus. Percentage of salted horses....
59 wordsThey came down the steps from Leahys terrace prudently, Frauenzimmer. and down the shelving shore...
78 wordsThe grainy sand had gone from under his feet. His boots trod again a damp crackling mast,...
78 wordsSpurned lover. I was a strapping young gossoon at that time, I tell you. Ill show you my likeness...
75 wordsCocklepickers. They waded a little way in the water and, stooping, soused their bags and, lifting...
65 wordsHe lay back at full stretch over the sharp rocks, cramming the scribbled note and pencil into a...
77 wordsKidneys were in his mind as he moved about the kitchen softly, righting her breakfast things on the...
42 wordsOn the doorstep he felt in his hip pocket for the latchkey. Not there. In the trousers I left off....
68 wordsHe took a page up from the pile of cut sheets. the model farm at Kinnereth on the lakeshore of...
62 wordsPoor old professor Goodwin. Dreadful old case. Still he was a courteous old chap. Oldfashioned way...
62 wordsThanks ever so much for the lovely birthday present. It suits me splendid. Everyone says I am quite...
75 wordsHe bent down to regard a lean file of spearmint growing by the wall. Make a summerhouse here....
79 wordsIn Westland row he halted before the window of the Belfast and Oriental Tea Company and read the...
75 wordsLost it. Curse your noisy pugnose. Feels locked out of it. Paradise and the peri. Always happening...
48 wordsHe tore the flower gravely from its pinhold smelt its almost no smell and placed it in his heart...
54 wordsHe stood aside watching their blind masks pass down the aisle, one by one, and seek their places....
75 wordsHe stood up. Hello. Were those two buttons of my waistcoat open all the time. Women enjoy it. Never...
79 wordsAll waited. Then wheels were heard from in front, turning. then nearer. then horses hoofs. A jolt....
50 wordsThey went past the bleak pulpit of saint Marks, under the railway bridge, past the Queens theatre....
80 wordsDead side of the street this. Dull business by day, land agents, temperance hotel, Falconers...
52 wordsTheir eyes watched him. On the slow weedy waterway he had floated on his raft coastward over...
79 wordsAfter a moment he followed the others in, blinking in the screened light. The coffin lay on its...
57 wordsThey tell the story, he said, that two drunks came out here one foggy evening to look for the grave...
79 wordsNice soft tweed Ned Lambert has in that suit. Tinge of purple. I had one like that when we lived in...
69 wordsThe Sacred Heart that is. showing it. Heart on his sleeve. Ought to be sideways and red it should...
71 wordsHynes here too. account of the funeral probably. Thumping. Thump. This morning the remains of the...
61 wordsMr Bloom passed on out of the clanking noises through the gallery on to the landing. Now am I going...
48 wordsWhat was their civilisation. Vast, I allow. but vile. Cloacae. sewers. The Jews in the wilderness...
76 wordsO yes, J. J. OMolloy said eagerly. Lady Dudley was walking home through the park to see all the...
62 wordsHis gaze turned at once but slowly from J. J. OMolloys towards Stephens face and then bent at once...
41 wordsJust this ad, Mr Bloom said, pushing through towards the steps, puffing, and taking the cutting...
71 wordsPaying game. Torry and Alexander last year. Polygamy. His wife will put the stopper on that. Where...
49 wordsGood idea that. Wonder if he pays rent to the corporation. How can you own water really. Its always...
71 wordsHot mockturtle vapour and steam of newbaked jampuffs rolypoly poured out from Harrisons. The heavy...
78 wordsBest paper by long chalks for a small ad. Got the provinces now. Cook and general, exc. cuisine,...
77 wordsNever know who youre talking to. Corny Kelleher he has Harvey Duff in his eye. Like that Peter or...
75 wordsHe crossed at Nassau street corner and stood before the window of Yeates and Son, pricing the...
75 wordsHe passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers. Cascades of ribbons. Flimsy China...
55 wordsLike a few olives too if they had them. Italian I prefer. Good glass of burgundy take away that....
61 wordsHis downcast eyes followed the silent veining of the oaken slab. Beauty. it curves. curves are...
77 wordsBare clean closestools waiting in the window of William Miller, plumber, turned back his thoughts....
70 wordsAnd with a woman, for instance. More shameless not seeing. That girl passing the Stewart...
78 wordsFormless spiritual. Father, Word and Holy Breath. Allfather, the heavenly man. Hiesos Kristos,...
42 wordsThe play begins. A player comes on under the shadow, made up in the castoff mail of a court buck, a...
66 wordsChristfox in leather trews, hiding, a runaway in blighted treeforks, from hue and cry. Knowing no...
74 wordsThat may be too, Stephen said. Theres a saying of Goethes which Mr Magee likes to quote. Beware of...
63 wordsHe knows you. He knows your old fellow. O, I fear me, he is Greeker than the Greeks. His pale...
41 wordsLovely. Buck Mulligan suspired amorously. I asked him what he thought of the charge of pederasty...
40 wordsAs for his family, Stephen said, his mothers name lives in the forest of Arden. Her death brought...
72 wordsMan delights him not nor woman neither, Stephen said. He returns after a life of absence to that...
75 wordsFather Conmee was wonderfully well indeed. He would go to Buxton probably for the waters. And her...
76 wordsIt was a peaceful day. The gentleman with the glasses opposite Father Conmee had finished...
62 wordsCorny Kelleher closed his long daybook and glanced with his drooping eye at a pine coffinlid...
73 wordsLawyers of the past, haughty, pleading, beheld pass from the consolidated taxing office to Nisi...
58 wordsAn elderly female, no more young, left the building of the courts of chancery, kings bench,...
75 wordsLet me see. Is he buried in saint Michans. Or no, there was a midnight burial in Glasnevin. Corpse...
46 wordsA Stuart face of nonesuch Charles, lank locks falling at its sides. It glowed as she crouched...
45 wordsAs he strode past Mr Blooms dental windows the sway of his dustcoat brushed rudely from its angle a...
41 wordsBlazes Boylan presented to the leaders skyblue frontlets and high action a skyblue tie, a...
57 wordsTwo sheets cream vellum paper one reserve two envelopes when I was in Wisdom Helys wise Bloom in...
79 wordsPat served, uncovered dishes. Leopold cut liverslices. As said before he ate with relish the inner...
45 wordsRichie cocked his lips apout. A low incipient note sweet banshee murmured. all. A thrush. A...
80 wordsMartha it is. Coincidence. Just going to write. Lionels song. Lovely name you have. Cant write....
40 wordsRichie, admiring, descanted on that mans glorious voice. He remembered one night long ago. Never...
74 wordsOn. Know what I mean. No, change that ee. Accep my poor litt pres enclos. Ask her no answ. Hold on....
73 wordsSea, wind, leaves, thunder, waters, cows lowing, the cattlemarket, cocks, hens dont crow, snakes...
62 wordsShe looked fine. Her crocus dress she wore lowcut, belongings on show. Clove her breath was always...
78 wordsAll a kind of attempt to talk. Unpleasant when it stops because you never know exac. Organ in...
59 wordsDevil a much, says I. Theres a bloody big foxy thief beyond by the garrison church at the corner of...
72 wordsThe figure seated on a large boulder at the foot of a round tower was that of a broadshouldered...
79 wordsBut he, the young chief of the OBergans, could ill brook to be outdone in generous deeds but gave...
80 wordsSo of course the citizen was only waiting for the wink of the word and he starts gassing out of him...
71 wordsAll those who are interested in the spread of human culture among the lower animals and their name...
62 wordsSo Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and...
65 wordsIt was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the...
55 wordsAnd whereas on the sixteenth day of the month of the oxeyed goddess and in the third week after the...
56 wordsRaimeis, says the citizen. Theres no one as blind as the fellow that wont see, if you know what...
50 wordsThey believe in rod, the scourger almighty, creator of hell upon earth, and in Jacky Tar, the son...
77 wordsLove loves to love love. Nurse loves the new chemist. Constable 14A loves Mary Kelly. Gerty...
73 wordsO, by God, says Ned, you should have seen Bloom before that son of his that died was born. I met...
42 wordsAnd all the ragamuffins and sluts of the nation round the door and Martin telling the jarvey to...
80 wordsThe three girl friends were seated on the rocks, enjoying the evening scene and the air which was...
80 wordsEdy Boardman asked Tommy Caffrey was he done and he said yes so then she buttoned up his little...
41 wordsThrough the open window of the church the fragrant incense was wafted and with it the fragrant...
47 wordsQueen of angels, queen of patriarchs, queen of prophets, of all saints, they prayed, queen of the...
80 wordsEdy straightened up baby Boardman to get ready to go and Cissy tucked in the ball and the spades...
80 wordsMr Bloom watched her as she limped away. Poor girl. Thats why shes left on the shelf and the others...
79 wordsWonder how is she feeling in that region. Shame all put on before third person. More put out about...
78 wordsBa. What is that flying about. Swallow. Bat probably. Thinks Im a tree, so blind. Have birds no...
78 wordsO sweety all your little girlwhite up I saw dirty bracegirdle made me do love sticky we two naughty...
80 wordsAs her eyes then ongot his weeds swart therefor sorrow she feared. Glad after she was that ere...
77 wordsBut sir Leopold was passing grave maugre his word by cause he still had pity of the terrorcausing...
62 wordsWith this came up Lenehan to the feet of the table to say how the letter was in that nights gazette...
66 wordsBut Malachias tale began to freeze them with horror. He conjured up the scene before them. The...
73 wordsThere are sins or let us call them as the world calls them evil memories which are hidden away by...
65 wordsTis, sure. What say. In the speakeasy. Tight. I shee you, shir. Bantam, two days teetee. Bowsing...
77 wordsHe disappears into Olhausens, the porkbutchers, under the downcoming rollshutter. A few moments...
64 wordsHe breathes in deep agitation, swallowing gulps of air, questions, hopes, crubeens for her supper,...
69 wordsMRS BREEN. Gushingly. Tremendously teapot. Londons teapot and Im simply teapot all over me. She...
42 wordsBLOOM. Yes. And Molly was laughing because Rogers and Maggot OReilly were mimicking a cock as we...
64 wordsBLOOM. Produces from his heartpocket a crumpled yellow flower. This is the flower in question. It...
77 wordsBEAUFOY. Shouts. Its a damnably foul lie, showing the moral rottenness of the man. He extends his...
41 wordsJ. J. OMOLLOY. Hotly to the populace. This is a lonehand fight. By Hades, I will not have any...
79 wordsTHE HONOURABLE MRS MERVYN TALBOYS. Laughs derisively. O, did you, my fine fellow. Well, by the...
48 wordsHe executes a daredevil salmon leap in the air and is engulfed in the coalhole. Two discs on the...
62 wordsProlonged applause. Venetian masts, maypoles and festal arches spring up. A streamer bearing the...
64 wordsBloom explains to those near him his schemes for social regeneration. All agree with him. The...
76 wordsBRINI, PAPAL NUNCIO. In papal zouaves uniform, steel cuirasses as breastplate, armplates,...
80 wordsShe crosses the threshold. He hesitates. She turns and, holding out her hands, draws him over. He...
50 wordsOver the possing drift and choking breathcoughs, Elijahs voice, harsh as a corncrakes, jars on...
45 wordsSquinting in mock shame she glances with sidelong meaning at Bloom, then twists round towards him,...
74 wordsVIRAG. His face impassive, laughs in a rich feminine key. Splendid. Spanish fly in his fly or...
76 wordsVIRAG. Perfectly logical from his standpoint. Fall of man. Harshly, his pupils waxing. To hell with...
72 wordsBLOOM. In Svengalis fur overcoat, with folded arms and Napoleonic forelock, frowns in ventriloquial...
61 wordsBELLO. Coaxingly. Come, ducky dear, I want a word with you, darling, just to administer correction....
72 wordsBLOOM. Her hands and features working. It was Gerald converted me to be a true corsetlover when I...
54 wordsBELLO. Sarcastically. I wouldnt hurt your feelings for the world but theres a man of brawn in...
77 wordsTHE NYMPH. I do. You bore me away, framed me in oak and tinsel, set me above your marriage couch....
43 wordsBLOOM. Pawing the heather abjectly. O, I have been a perfect pig. Enemas too I have administered....
41 wordsBella goes to the table to count the money while Stephen talks to himself in monosyllables. Zoe...
42 wordsSTEPHEN. Et exaltabuntur cornua iusti. Queens lay with prize bulls. Remember Pasiphae for whose...
46 wordsMAGINNI. The poetry of motion, art of calisthenics. No connection with Madam Legget Byrnes or...
51 wordsBLOOM. O, I know. Bulldog on the premises. But hes a Trinity student. Patrons of your...
40 wordsDON EMILE PATRIZIO FRANZ RUPERT POPE HENNESSY. In medieval hauberk, two wild geese volant on his...
41 wordsCORNY KELLEHER. Laughs, pointing his thumb over his right shoulder to the car brought up against...
63 wordsRUDY. Gazes, unseeing, into Blooms eyes and goes on reading, kissing, smiling. He has a delicate...
51 wordsThough this sort of thing went on every other night or very near it still Stephens feelings got the...
44 wordsNo, Mr Bloom repeated again, I wouldnt personally repose much trust in that boon companion of yours...
70 wordsThats right, the sailor said. Fort Camden and Fort Carlisle. Thats where I hails from. I belongs...
53 wordsTheyre great for the cold steel, somebody who was evidently quite in the dark said for the benefit...
42 wordsThe face of a streetwalker glazed and haggard under a black straw hat peered askew round the door...
80 wordsStill its solid food, his good genius urged, Im a stickler for solid food, his one and only reason...
55 wordsSo then after that they drifted on to the wreck off Daunts rock, wreck of that illfated Norwegian...
46 wordsHe turned a long you are wrong gaze on Stephen of timorous dark pride at the soft impeachment with...
40 wordsThis morning Hynes put it in of course the remains of the late Mr Patrick Dignam were removed from...
66 wordsStephen, obviously addressed, looked down on the photo showing a large sized lady with her fleshy...
80 wordsAll kinds of Utopian plans were flashing through his Bs busy brain, education the genuine article,...
76 wordsSo they turned on to chatting about music, a form of art for which Bloom, as a pure amateur,...
80 wordsThe driver never said a word, good, bad or indifferent, but merely watched the two figures, as he...
40 wordsReclined against the area railings he perceived through the transparent kitchen panes a man...
46 wordsThat he was hydrophobe, hating partial contact by immersion or total by submersion in cold water,...
45 wordsRelinquishing his symposiarchal right to the moustache cup of imitation Crown Derby presented to...
56 wordsMrs Riordan Dante, a widow of independent means, had resided in the house of Stephens parents from...
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