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1  Dublin was a new and complex sensation.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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2  His soul was still disquieted and cast down by the dull phenomenon of Dublin.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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3  Either they went to the left towards the Dublin mountains or along the Goatstown road and thence into Dundrum, coming home by Sandyford.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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4  The letters of the name of Dublin lay heavily upon his mind, pushing one another surlily hither and thither with slow boorish insistence.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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5  And that night Mr Casey had not gone to Dublin by train but a car had come to the door and he had heard his father say something about the Cabinteely road.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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6  Another, a brisk old man, whom Mr Dedalus called Johnny Cashman, had covered him with confusion by asking him to say which were prettier, the Dublin girls or the Cork girls.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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7  Its drawl was an echo of the quays of Dublin given back by a bleak decaying seaport, its energy an echo of the sacred eloquence of Dublin given back flatly by a Wicklow pulpit.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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8  He was alone at the side of the balcony, looking out of jaded eyes at the culture of Dublin in the stalls and at the tawdry scene-cloths and human dolls framed by the garish lamps of the stage.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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9  His anger against her found vent in coarse railing at her paramour, whose name and voice and features offended his baffled pride: a priested peasant, with a brother a policeman in Dublin and a brother a potboy in Moycullen.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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