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1  Very good, you needn't wait to see.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
2  Then she remembered what she had been waiting for.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
3  We were waiting for him to come home with the money.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In GRACE
4  She was waiting for us, her figure defined by the light from the half-opened door.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
5  I felt my soul receding into some pleasant and vicious region; and there again I found it waiting for me.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
6  A very sullen-faced man stood at the corner of O'Connell Bridge waiting for the little Sandymount tram to take him home.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In COUNTERPARTS
7  She sat amid the chilly circle of her accomplishments, waiting for some suitor to brave it and offer her a brilliant life.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
8  She was to go away with him by the night-boat to be his wife and to live with him in Buenos Ayres where he had a home waiting for her.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
9  While we were waiting he brought out the catapult which bulged from his inner pocket and explained some improvements which he had made in it.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
10  Her hopes and visions were so intricate that she no longer saw the white pillows on which her gaze was fixed or remembered that she was waiting for anything.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
11  The Freeman man had come in to say that he could not wait for the concert as he had to report the lecture which an American priest was giving in the Mansion House.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
12  Mrs. Mercer stood up to go: she was sorry she couldn't wait any longer, but it was after eight o'clock and she did not like to be out late as the night air was bad for her.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
13  After waiting for a little time he saw them coming towards him and, when they turned to the right, he followed them, stepping lightly in his white shoes, down one side of Merrion Square.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
14  The first tenor and the baritone and Miss Healy stood together, waiting tranquilly, but Mr. Bell's nerves were greatly agitated because he was afraid the audience would think that he had come late.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
15  He was a shabby stooped little drunkard with a white face and a white moustache and white eyebrows, pencilled above his little eyes, which were pink-veined and raw; and all day long he sat in the bailiff's room, waiting to be put on a job.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
16  They seemed to him a band of tramps, huddled together along the riverbanks, their old coats covered with dust and soot, stupefied by the panorama of sunset and waiting for the first chill of night bid them arise, shake themselves and begone.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
17  On the closed square piano a pudding in a huge yellow dish lay in waiting and behind it were three squads of bottles of stout and ale and minerals, drawn up according to the colours of their uniforms, the first two black, with brown and red labels, the third and smallest squad white, with transverse green sashes.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
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