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1  Then he plucked him by the sleeve to come away.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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2  He looked at Athy's rolled-up sleeves and knuckly inky hands.
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3  Then, blushing slightly, he laid his hand on Lynch's thick tweed sleeve.
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4  He had rolled up his sleeves to show how Mr Gleeson would roll up his sleeves.
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5  The prefect was at the door with some boys and Simon Moonan was knotting his false sleeves.
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6  But he imagined that he stood near Emma in a wide land and, humbly and in tears, bent and kissed the elbow of her sleeve.
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7  The fellow called Simon Moonan that name because Simon Moonan used to tie the prefect's false sleeves behind his back and the prefect used to let on to be angry.
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8  He felt the prefect of studies touch it for a moment at the fingers to straighten it and then the swish of the sleeve of the soutane as the pandybat was lifted to strike.
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9  The soutane sleeve swished again as the pandybat was lifted and a loud crashing sound and a fierce maddening tingling burning pain made his hand shrink together with the palms and fingers in a livid quivering mass.
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