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1  I wonder if there's any likelihood of dinner this evening.
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2  The air was soft and grey and mild and evening was coming.
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3  Aubrey was at school and had only an hour or two free in the evening.
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4  The blackest protestant in the land would not speak the language I have heard this evening.
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5  One evening his father came home full of news which kept his tongue busy all through dinner.
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6  Sometimes a fever gathered within him and led him to rove alone in the evening along the quiet avenue.
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7  One evening when playing tig she had put her hands over his eyes: long and white and thin and cold and soft.
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8  The parlour fire would not draw that evening and Mr Dedalus rested the poker against the bars of the grate to attract the flame.
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9  He remembered the summer evening he had been there to be dressed as boatbearer, the evening of the Procession to the little altar in the wood.
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10  A lamp with a reflector hung on the japanned wall of the fireplace and by its light his aunt was reading the evening paper that lay on her knees.
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11  The evening air was pale and chilly and after every charge and thud of the footballers the greasy leather orb flew like a heavy bird through the grey light.
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12  That was a long time ago then out on the playgrounds in the evening light, creeping from point to point on the fringe of his line, a heavy bird flying low through the grey light.
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13  He thought it should be a pleasant life enough, driving along the roads every evening to deliver milk, if he had warm gloves and a fat bag of gingernuts in his pocket to eat from.
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14  Stephen sometimes went round with the car which delivered the evening milk and these chilly drives blew away his memory of the filth of the cowyard and he felt no repugnance at seeing the cow hairs and hayseeds on the milkman's coat.
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15  There was the smell of evening in the air, the smell of the fields in the country where they digged up turnips to peel them and eat them when they went out for a walk to Major Barton's, the smell there was in the little wood beyond the pavilion where the gallnuts were.
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16  The vastness and strangeness of the life suggested to him by the bales of merchandise stocked along the walls or swung aloft out of the holds of steamers wakened again in him the unrest which had sent him wandering in the evening from garden to garden in search of Mercedes.
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17  The mirth, which in the beginning of the evening had seemed to him false and trivial, was like a soothing air to him, passing gaily by his senses, hiding from other eyes the feverish agitation of his blood while through the circling of the dancers and amid the music and laughter her glance travelled to his corner, flattering, taunting, searching, exciting his heart.
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