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1  He wanted to ask somebody about it.
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2  He was telling them something about Tullabeg.
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3  There was a book in the library about Holland.
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4  It was not nice about the spit in the woman's eye.
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5  He wondered if they were arguing at home about that.
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6  Every day there was something in the paper about it.
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7  It was very big to think about everything and everywhere.
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8  He's very moist and watery about the dewlaps, God bless him.
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9  I was thinking about the bad language of the railway porter.
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10  I'd go straight up to the rector and tell him about it after dinner.
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11  He heard the fellows talk among themselves about him as they dressed for mass.
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12  He crept about from point to point on the fringe of his line, making little runs now and then.
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13  Bless us, O Lord, and these Thy gifts which through Thy bounty we are about to receive through Christ our Lord.
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14  But he had a saying about our clerical friends, that he would never let one of them put his two feet under his mahogany.
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15  Stephen felt his own face red too, thinking of all the bets about who would get first place in elements, Jack Lawton or he.
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16  Perhaps a wild rose might be like those colours and he remembered the song about the wild rose blossoms on the little green place.
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17  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.
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