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1  Then she went back to the bed again and sat at the foot.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
2  Polly sat for a little time on the side of the bed, crying.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
3  "The people are in bed and after their first sleep now," he said.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
4  Nannie gave the lead and we three knelt down at the foot of the bed.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
5  Mr. Kernan sent a letter to his office next day and remained in bed.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In GRACE
6  When we rose and went up to the head of the bed I saw that he was not smiling.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
7  She did not disturb the silence, but leaned over the rail at the foot of the bed.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In GRACE
8  Then late one night as he was undressing for bed she had tapped at his door, timidly.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
9  The bed was clothed with white bedclothes and a black and scarlet rug covered the foot.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
10  She broke loose from him and ran to the bed and, throwing her arms across the bed-rail, hid her face.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
11  He sat propped up in the bed by pillows and the little colour in his puffy cheeks made them resemble warm cinders.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In GRACE
12  She stopped, choking with sobs, and, overcome by emotion, flung herself face downward on the bed, sobbing in the quilt.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
13  While he was sitting helplessly on the side of the bed in shirt and trousers she tapped lightly at his door and entered.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
14  While he was sitting with her on the side of the bed Mary came to the door and said that the missus wanted to see him in the parlour.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
15  His wife put him to bed while Mr. Power sat downstairs in the kitchen asking the children where they went to school and what book they were in.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In GRACE
16  Then she took off her working skirt and her house-boots and laid her best skirt out on the bed and her tiny dress-boots beside the foot of the bed.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In CLAY
17  A fat brown goose lay at one end of the table and at the other end, on a bed of creased paper strewn with sprigs of parsley, lay a great ham, stripped of its outer skin and peppered over with crust crumbs, a neat paper frill round its shin and beside this was a round of spiced beef.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
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