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1 A skull appeared suspended in the gloom of the doorway.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 2
2 His brain was simmering and bubbling within the cracking tenement of the skull.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 3
3 Stephen looked coldly on the oblong skull beneath him overgrown with tangled twine-coloured hair.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 5
4 There was a skull on the desk and a strange solemn smell in the room like the old leather of chairs.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 1
5 The long slender flattened skull beneath the long pointed cap brought before Stephen's mind the image of a hooded reptile.
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6 The priest's face was in total shadow, but the waning daylight from behind him touched the deeply grooved temples and the curves of the skull.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 4
7 The rector held his hand across the side of the desk where the skull was and Stephen, placing his hand in it for a moment, felt a cool moist palm.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 1
8 His heart was beating fast on account of the solemn place he was in and the silence of the room: and he looked at the skull and at the rector's kind-looking face.
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9 The oblong skull beneath did not turn to meet this shaft of thought and yet the shaft came back to its bowstring; for he saw in a moment the student's whey-pale face.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 5