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1  Some distant lamp or lighted window gleamed below me.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
2  Corley halted at the first lamp and stared grimly before him.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
3  The man sat down heavily on one of the chairs while the little boy lit the lamp.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
4  Many times she allowed the dark to fall upon them, refraining from lighting the lamp.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
5  A ghostly light from the street lamp lay in a long shaft from one window to the door.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
6  I remembered that I had noticed long velvet curtains and a swinging lamp of antique fashion.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
7  Darkness, accompanied by a thick fog, was gaining upon the dusk of February and the lamps in Eustace Street had been lit.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
8  Before a curtain, over which the words Cafe Chantant were written in coloured lamps, two men were counting money on a salver.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
9  A little hand-mirror hung above the washstand and during the day a white-shaded lamp stood as the sole ornament of the mantelpiece.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
10  The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
11  A little lamp with a white china shade stood upon the table and its light fell over a photograph which was enclosed in a frame of crumpled horn.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
12  The lamps were still burning redly in the murky air and, across the river, the palace of the Four Courts stood out menacingly against the heavy sky.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
13  When he reached the corner of Merrion Street he took his stand in the shadow of a lamp and brought out one of the cigarettes which he had reserved and lit it.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
14  The light from the lamp opposite our door caught the white curve of her neck, lit up her hair that rested there and, falling, lit up the hand upon the railing.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
15  The light of the lamps of the church fell upon an assembly of black clothes and white collars, relieved here and there by tweeds, on dark mottled pillars of green marble and on lugubrious canvases.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In GRACE
16  Like illumined pearls the lamps shone from the summits of their tall poles upon the living texture below which, changing shape and hue unceasingly, sent up into the warm grey evening air an unchanging unceasing murmur.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS