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1  It murmured; and I understood that it desired to confess something.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
2  He was in such a fever of rage and desire that he did not hear her come from the window.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
3  Perhaps she had felt the impetuous desire that was in him, and then the yielding mood had come upon her.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
4  When it was nearly half-past eight, the few people in the hall began to express their desire to be entertained.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
5  While he had been full of memories of their secret life together, full of tenderness and joy and desire, she had been comparing him in her mind with another.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
6  I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
7  But the young men whom she met were ordinary and she gave them no encouragement, trying to console her romantic desires by eating a great deal of Turkish Delight in secret.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
8  He could have flung his arms about her hips and held her still, for his arms were trembling with desire to seize her and only the stress of his nails against the palms of his hands held the wild impulse of his body in check.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
9  His father, therefore, was unusually friendly with Villona and his manner expressed a real respect for foreign accomplishments; but this subtlety of his host was probably lost upon the Hungarian, who was beginning to have a sharp desire for his dinner.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AFTER THE RACE