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1. Telemachus

[25] —Back to barracks! he said sternly.

[209] Drawing back and pointing, Stephen said with bitterness:

[568] Stephen reached back and took the milkjug from the locker.

[681] bring us back some money. Today the bards must drink and junket. Ireland

[888] wind that bore back to them his brief birdsweet cries.

[914] Haines helped himself and snapped the case to. He put it back in his

[1023] —Seymour’s back in town, the young man said, grasping again his spur

2. Nestor

[1168] Some laughed again: mirthless but with meaning. Two in the back bench

[1234] His hand turned the page over. He leaned back and went on again, having

[1370] copybook back to his bench.

[1396] And as he stepped fussily back across the field his old man’s voice

[1443] Stephen’s hand, free again, went back to the hollow shells. Symbols

[1497] Mr Deasy laughed with rich delight, putting back his savingsbox.

[1621] broad sunbeam. He faced about and back again.

[1658] What if that nightmare gave you a back kick?

[1732] —Good morning, sir, Stephen said again, bowing to his bent back.

[1746] —Yes, sir, Stephen said, turning back at the gate.

[1761] rattling chain of phlegm. He turned back quickly, coughing, laughing,

3. Proteus

[1819] in ruddy wool. The cords of all link back, strandentwining cable of

[1866] A bolt drawn back and Walter welcomes me.

[1880] Walter back.

[1928] monstrance, basiliskeyed. Get down, baldpoll! A choir gives back menace

[1936] cheek. Dringdring! Down, up, forward, back. Dan Occam thought of that,

[2018] all brass buttons. Bits all khrrrrklak in place clack back. Not hurt? O,

[2026] slimy pier at Newhaven. Comment? Rich booty you brought back; Le Tutu,

[2112] quaking soil. Turn back.

[2123] feet up from the suck and turned back by the mole of boulders. Take

[2128] The flood is following me. I can watch it flow past from here. Get back

[2148] Peekaboo. I see you. No, the dog. He is running back to them. Who?

[2161] The dog’s bark ran towards him, stopped, ran back. Dog of my enemy.

[2188] off like a bounding hare, ears flung back, chasing the shadow of a

[2190] He turned, bounded back, came nearer, trotted on twinkling shanks. On a

[2211] The cry brought him skulking back to his master and a blunt bootless

[2213] slunk back in a curve. Doesn’t see me. Along by the edge of the mole

[2232] ruffian and his strolling mort. Spoils slung at her back. Loose sand and

[2271] Turning his back to the sun he bent over far to a table of rock and

[2281] back. Endless, would it be mine, form of my form? Who watches me here?

[2287] I see, east, back. Ah, see now! Falls back suddenly, frozen in

[2308] He lay back at full stretch over the sharp rocks, cramming the scribbled

[2343] forthflowing, wending back: loom of the moon. Weary too in sight of

4. Calypso

[2481] —I’m going round the corner. Be back in a minute.

[2513] come back anyhow.

[2662] He walked back along Dorset street, reading gravely. Agendath Netaim:

[2688] Doesn’t see. Chap you know just to salute bit of a bore. His back

[2752] He waited till she had laid the card aside and curled herself back

[2916] He turned the pages back.

[2935] back. Only a little burnt. He tossed it off the pan on to a plate and

[3008] Reading, lying back now, counting the strands of her hair, smiling,

[3022] nosed at it and stalked to the door. She looked back at him, mewing.

[3025] with her back to the fire too.

[3061] He walked on. Where is my hat, by the way? Must have put it back on

[3096] glanced back through what he had read and, while feeling his water flow

[3125] back the jerky shaky door of the jakes and came forth from the gloom

5. Lotus Eaters

[3191] back, reading a book with a parasol open. Couldn’t sink if you tried:

[3218] The postmistress handed him back through the grill his card with a

[3288] Hoppy. Having a wet. Drawing back his head and gazing far from beneath

[3501] back in his sidepocket.

[3624] what to do to. Bald spot behind. Letters on his back: I.N.R.I? No:

[3650] Mr Bloom looked back towards the choir. Not going to be any music. Pity.

[3677] and he sat back quietly in his bench. The priest came down from the

[3743] The chemist turned back page after page. Sandy shrivelled smell he seems

[3800] come back.

[3841] sheets back on Mr Bloom’s arms.

[3852] They never come back. Fleshpots of Egypt.

6. Hades

[3956] before the tenement houses, lurched round the corner and, swerving back

[3958] fell back, saying:

[3976] his back. Thinks he’ll cure it with pills. All breadcrumbs they are.

[4016] The carriage heeled over and back, their four trunks swaying.

[4079] A raindrop spat on his hat. He drew back and saw an instant of shower

[4145] A pointsman’s back straightened itself upright suddenly against

[4241] the ears. Madame: smiling. I smiled back. A smile goes a long way. Only

[4263] —The devil break the hasp of your back!

[4396] Martin Cunningham drew out his watch briskly, coughed and put it back.

[4527] here on the way back to drink his health. Pass round the consolation.

[4613] out his arm and, wrenching back the handle, shoved the door open with

[4700] substance. Something new to hope for not like the past she wanted back,

[4784] shook it again. Then he came back and put it back in the bucket. As you

[4899] Ned Lambert glanced back.

[4939] Cunningham’s side puzzling two long keys at his back.

[4962] Rewarded by smiles he fell back and spoke with Corny Kelleher, accepting

[5071] Mr Bloom stood far back, his hat in his hand, counting the bared heads.

[5282] a flash. But being brought back to life no. Can’t bury in the air

[5290] The gates glimmered in front: still open. Back to the world again.

7. Aeolus

[5417] steered by an umbrella, a solemn beardframed face. The broadcloth back

[5418] ascended each step: back. All his brains are in the nape of his neck,

[5495] and on the same, print it over and over and up and back. Monkeydoodle

[5615] The foreman handed back the galleypage suddenly, saying:

[5680] I put there. Lose it out of that pocket. Putting back his handkerchief

[5759] The doorknob hit Mr Bloom in the small of the back as the door was

[5796] J. J. O’Molloy strolled to the sloping desk and began to turn back the

[5923] slip limply back on the file. Is that Canada swindle case on today?

[6013] —Back in no time, Mr Bloom said, hurrying out.

[6047] jacket, jingling his keys in his back pocket. They jingled then in the

[6247] fell back with grace on his umbrella, feigning a gasp.

[6322] —New York World, the editor said, excitedly pushing back his straw

[6345] He flung back pages of the files and stuck his finger on a point.

[6364] illstarched dicky jutted up and with a rude gesture he thrust it back

[6515] I have often thought since on looking back over that strange time that

[6719] He thrust the sheets back and went into the inner office.

[6820] —What is it? Myles Crawford said, falling back a pace.

[6866] back a bill for me no later than last week. Sorry, Jack. You must take

8. Lestrygonians

[7187] Flies’ picnic too. Never put a dress on her back like it. Fitted her

[7323] She took back the card, sighing.

[7338] He looked still at her, holding back behind his look his discontent.

[7583] Back out you get the knife. Hidden hand. Stay in. The firing squad.

[7604] squads of police marching out, back: trams in, out. Those two loonies

[7651] when they put him in parliament that Parnell would come back from the

[7711] were in Lombard street west. Looking up from the back garden. Terrific

[7765] never like it again after Rudy. Can’t bring back time. Like holding

[7766] water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then.

[7787] anyhow. Must go back for that lotion. For her birthday perhaps.

[7794] Useless to go back. Had to be. Tell me all.

[7827] Perched on high stools by the bar, hats shoved back, at the tables

[7832] round him shovelled gurgling soup down his gullet. A man spitting back

[7893] He came out into clearer air and turned back towards Grafton street. Eat

[8127] Raw pastry I like myself. Half the catch of oysters they throw back in

[8134] him back the half of a cow. Spread I saw down in the Master of the

[8374] turned back his thoughts. They could: and watch it all the way down,

[8392] Five guineas about. On the pig’s back.

[8459] his cane back, feeling again.

[8498] With a gentle finger he felt ever so slowly the hair combed back above

[8571] He thrust back quick Agendath.

9. Scylla and Charybdis

[8802] John Eglinton shifted his spare body, leaning back to judge.

[8868] Do you intend to pay it back?

[8950] eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all

[8983] —Piper! Mr Best piped. Is Piper back?

[9188] Perdita, that which was lost. What was lost is given back to him: his

[9253] its mole cinquespotted. He goes back, weary of the creation he has

[9399] Buck Mulligan gleefully bent back, laughing to the dark eavesdropping

[9479] back including a pair of fancy stays. The gombeenwoman Eliza Tudor had

[9730] Lean, he lay back. Shy, deny thy kindred, the unco guid. Shy, supping

[9835] up in Lunnon in a wrastling play wud a man on’s back. The playhouse

[9907] Newhaven-Dieppe, steerage passenger. Paris and back. Lapwing. Icarus.

[10130] lub back: I followed. I gall his kibe.

[10174] Afterwit. Go back.

[10282] A dark back went before them, step of a pard, down, out by the gateway,

10. Wandering Rocks

[10349] —Pilate! Wy don’t you old back that owlin mob?

[10818] far back in her drawer and rolled a sheet of gaudy notepaper into her

[10833] L. Y.’S and plodded back as they had come.

[10848] I can go after six if you’re not back. A quarter after. Yes, sir.

[10945] With gaping mouth and head far back he stood still and, after an

[11043] in there going to back a bloody horse someone gave him that hasn’t an

[11248] held them back.

[11431] reminiscences of sir Jonah Barrington. When you look back on it all

[11587] —With a broken back, is it? Mr Dedalus asked.

[11739] John Wyse Nolan fell back with Mr Power, while Martin Cunningham took

[11795] —Decent little soul he was, Mr Power said to the stalwart back of long

[11912] Mr Lewis Werner’s cheerful windows, then turned and strode back along

[12054] hastening husband back from under the hoofs of the outriders. She

11. Sirens

[12267] —He’s killed looking back.

[12320] She poured in a teacup tea, then back in the teapot tea. They cowered

[12403] your other eye. They threw young heads back, bronze gigglegold, to let

[12453] —O, welcome back, miss Douce.

[12909] He wandered back to the bar to the lost chord pipe. Bald Pat carried two

[12930] Mr Dedalus wandered back, pipe in hand.

[13026] Molly did laugh when he went out. Threw herself back across the bed,

[13036] lady’s) hand to his firm clasp. Afternoon. Yes, she was back. To the

[13141] in the moon. Brave. Don’t know their danger. Still hold her back. Call

[13360] harking back in a retrospective sort of arrangement talked to listening

[13535] Cowley lay back.

[13860] —Ben machree, said Mr Dedalus, clapping Ben’s fat back

12. Cyclops

[14154] So we went around by the Linenhall barracks and the back of the

[14584] And says Bob Doran, with the hat on the back of his poll, lowest

[14756] married is a nice old phenomenon with a back on her like a ballalley.

[14909] he were but going to a hurling match in Clonturk park. She brought back

[15463] And who was he, tell us? A nobody, two pair back and passages, at seven

[15635] a nation, and Bloom trying to back him up moderation and botheration and

[16031] there. If he comes just say I’ll be back in a second. Just a moment.

[16131] back that horse only I put him off it and he told me Bloom gave him the

[16141] Goodbye Ireland I’m going to Gort. So I just went round the back of

[16154] So anyhow when I got back they were at it dingdong, John Wyse saying it

[16491] Gob, the citizen made a plunge back into the shop.

[16514] up the wellknown strains of Come Back to Erin, followed immediately

[16610] lugs back for all he was bloody well worth to tear him limb from limb.

13. Nausicaa

[16798] at the back without his cap on that she would know anywhere something

[16820] the lovely reflection which the mirror gave back to her! And when she

[17023] arms that were white and soft just like hers with the sleeves back

[17040] let them fight for it so Gerty drew back her foot but she wished their

[17170] them. And Cissy and Edy shouted after them to come back because they

[17200] thurible back to Father Conroy and knelt down looking up at the Blessed

[17213] a fortnight before like a rag on her back and a bit of her petticoat

[17262] Cissy said thanks and came back with her tongue out and said uncle said

[17272] or whatever he was doing to it and then he put it back and put his hands

[17273] back into his pockets. She felt a kind of a sensation rushing all over

[17290] her but Gerty could pay them back in their own coin and she just

[17296] was. Gerty’s lips parted swiftly to frame the word but she fought back

[17302] probing her mercilessly but with a brave effort she sparkled back in

[17377] magic lure in his eyes there would be no holding back for her. Love

[17401] Canon O’Hanlon put the Blessed Sacrament back into the tabernacle and

[17429] went over her. She leaned back far to look up where the fireworks were

[17430] and she caught her knee in her hands so as not to fall back looking up

[17450] And Jacky Caffrey shouted to look, there was another and she leaned back

[17453] she leaned back ever so far to see the fireworks and something queer was

[17457] higher and she had to lean back more and more to look up after it, high,

[17459] entrancing blush from straining back and he could see her other things

[17464] being bent so far back that he had a full view high up above her knee

[17482] was leaning back against the rock behind. Leopold Bloom (for it is he)

[17500] course without letting him and then slipped it back. Wonder if he’s

[17509] Slowly, without looking back she went down the uneven strand to Cissy,

[17632] Eating off his cold plate. Chap in the Burton today spitting back

[17664] Didn’t look back when she was going down the strand. Wouldn’t give

[17684] shaking it, to let the blood flow back when it was red. Who did you

[17704] combined. Excitement. When she leaned back, felt an ache at the butt of

[17745] wet is very unpleasant. Stuck. Well the foreskin is not back. Better

[17755] in Pill lane. Also that now is magnetism. Back of everything magnetism.

[17768] stuck out, head back, about the farmer in the ridingboots and spurs at

[17775] all round over me and half down my back.

[17820] went back and the soap not paid. Dislike carrying bottles like that hag

[17826] Fellows run up a bill on the slate and then slinking around the back

[17830] as far as turn back. Always at home at dinnertime. Looks mangled out:

[17896] cockles and periwinkles. Then I did Rip van Winkle coming back. She

[17932] be the one bit me, come back to see. Birds too. Never find out. Or what

[17934] to fly over the ocean and back. Lots must be killed in storms, telegraph

[17997] Strange moment for the mother too. Brings back her girlhood. Gibraltar.

[18011] bawler in Barney Kiernan’s. Got my own back there. Drunken ranters

[18012] what I said about his God made him wince. Mistake to hit back. Or? No.

[18051] tomorrow? Wait for her somewhere for ever. Must come back. Murderers do.

[18082] won’t go. Race there, race back to Ennis. Let him. Just close my eyes

14. Oxen of the Sun

[18569] A black crack of noise in the street here, alack, bawled back. Loud on

[18644] sprinkle this long while back as no man remembered to be without. The

[18735] as a cat has lives and back again with naked pockets as many more to his

[19031] pudding as you ever see what I always looks back on with a loving heart.

[19212] the scene before them. The secret panel beside the chimney slid back

[19221] at all, he muttered thickly, and I tramping Dublin this while back

[19228] panel slid back. An instant later his head appeared in the door opposite

[19277] reader. In a breath ’twas done but—hold! Back! It must not be! In

[19721] Back fro Lapland? Your corporosity sagaciating O K? How’s the squaws

[19762] back Madden’s a maddening back. O lust our refuge and our strength.

[19839] in his back pocket. Just you try it on.

15. Circe

[19881] makes back for her lair, swaying her lamp. A bandy child, asquat on the

[19983] head going back till both hands are a span from his breast, down turned,

[20131] BLOOM: (Hides the crubeen and trotter behind his back and, crestfallen,

[20207] his back for leapfrog.)

[20217] BLOOM: I was just going back for that lotion whitewax, orangeflower

[20313] rattle through a breakdown in clumsy clogs, twinging, singing, back to

[20314] back, toe heel, heel toe, with smackfatclacking nigger lips.)

[20337] puts out her hand inquisitively.) What are you hiding behind your back?

[20342] back in a retrospective arrangement, Old Christmas night, Georgina

[20423] RICHIE: (With a cry of pain, his hand to his back.) Ah! Bright’s!

[20534] PRIVATE CARR: (Behind his back.) He aint half balmy.

[20587] sprawls on his back, wriggling obscenely with begging paws, his long

[20590] back with a furtive poacher’s tread, dogged by the setter into a dark

[20592] softly but holds back and feels the trotter.) Sizeable for threepence.

[20691] BLOOM: (Scared, hats himself, steps back, then, plucking at his heart

[20882] completely. A Titbits back number.)

[21106] (A panel of fog rolls back rapidly, revealing rapidly in the jurybox

[21331] BLOOM: (Draws back, mechanically caressing her right bub with a flat

[21397] and the Welsh Fusiliers, standing to attention, keep back the crowd.

[21868] foot simultaneously in different directions, bids the tide turn back,

[21992] The blinds drawn. A letter. Then lie back to rest. (He breathes softly.)

[22081] the hearthrug of matted hair, his cap back to the front. With a wand he

[22083] doeskin gloves rolled back from a coral wristlet, a chain purse in

[22102] ZOE: Clap on the back for Zoe.

[22116] her shoulder, back, arm, chair to the ground. Lynch lifts the curled

[22118] behind at the squatted figure with its cap back to the front.)

[22250] a back number. You got me? It’s a lifebrightener, sure. The hottest

[22522] VIRAG: (Head askew, arches his back and hunched wingshoulders, peers

[22528] draws back and stares sideways down with dropping underjaw.) Well, well.

[22798] follows. She whirls it back in right circle. He eyes her.) Catch!

[22946] forward! Slide left foot one pace back! You will fall. You are falling.

[23330] skipping to hell and back. Sign a will and leave us any coin you have!

[23552] where the back changes name. (With sudden fervour.) For why should the

[23589] (Bloom half rises. His back trouserbutton snaps.)

[23661] glances back.) Eh? Who’s making love to my sweeties? (She darts back

[23667] BLOOM: (Gently.) Give me back that potato, will you?

[23675] Give a thing and take it back

[23728] of her stocking.) Hard earned on the flat of my back.

[23754] ZOE: (Points.) Him? Deep as a drawwell. (Lynch bends Kitty back over the

[23930] Kate! Up to sample or your money back. (He holds out a forefinger.)

[23961] raise weals out on him an inch thick and make him bring me back a signed

[24056] LYNCH: Let him alone. He’s back from Paris.

[24085] STEPHEN: (Grimacing with head back, laughs loudly, clapping himself.)

[24097] BELLA: (Clapping her belly sinks back on the sofa, with a shout of

[24369] (The couples fall aside. Stephen whirls giddily. Room whirls back. Eyes

[24481] (Stephen, abandoning his ashplant, his head and arms thrown back stark,

[24496] BLOOM: (Rushes to the hall, rushes back.) What lamp, woman?

[24513] BELLA: (Shrinks back and screams.) Jesus! Don’t!

[24559] walks, runs, zigzags, gallops, lugs laid back. He is pelted with gravel,

[24659] (He staggers a pace back.)

[24716] STEPHEN: Kings and unicorns! (He falls back a pace.) Come somewhere and

[24872] PRIVATE COMPTON: (Waves the crowd back.) Fair play, here. Make a

[24940] chasuble, his two left feet back to the front, celebrates camp mass. The

[24942] his head and collar back to the front, holds over the celebrant’s head

[25029] BLOOM: (Shoves them back, loudly.) Get back, stand back!

[25072] A bit sprung. Get those policemen to move those loafers back.

[25180] car and horse back slowly, awkwardly, and turn. Corny Kelleher on the

16. Eumaeus

[25294] by the circumstance that one of the back buttons of his trousers had,

[25304] of some little while back. They passed the main entrance of the Great

[25329] for every contingency as even a fellow on the broad of his back could

[25365] Discussing these and kindred topics they made a beeline across the back

[25479] —Thanks, Corley answered, you’re a gentleman. I’ll pay you back

[25491] bookkeeper there that used to be often round in Nagle’s back with

[25559] pride, quite legitimate, out of you. You could go back perhaps, he

[25599] at the back of it except he put it down to sheer cussedness or jealousy,

[25782] Never about the runaway wife coming back, however much devoted to the

[25889] Mullingar where he figured on going was five and six, there and back.

[25952] the route or viceversa or the two sides in fact. He turned back the

[25965] back. Knife like that.

[25972] your God, says he. Chuk! It went into his back up to the butt.

[26008] —Ay, boss, the sailor broke in. Give us back them papers.

[26329] back touch was quite in keeping with those italianos though candidly he

[26575] Ireland tavern, come back to Erin and so on. Then as for the other he

[26620] very largely a question of the money question which was at the back of

[26701] of some consternation remembering he had just come back from Paris,

[26839] down on their marrowbones to him to come back when he had recovered his

[26870] back. That haunting sense kind of drew you. To show the understudy in

[26878] set the terrier at you directly you got back. Then a lot of shillyshally

[26947] Looking back now in a retrospective kind of arrangement all seemed a

[26948] kind of dream. And then coming back was the worst thing you ever did

[27008] in the National Museum. Marble could give the original, shoulders, back,

[27365] all the others take a back seat. Stephen, in reply to a politely

[27405] harpoon hairpin, alligator tickle the small of his back and he sees the

17. Ithaca

[27618] 7 Eccles street, he inserted his hand mechanically into the back pocket

[27686] softly along the hallway the man’s back and listed feet and lighted

[27695] Stephen with its back to the area window, the other for himself when

[28070] entitled If Brian Boru could but come back and see old Dublin now,

[28608] “Come back, come back, you pretty little boy,

[28611] “I can’t come back and I won’t come back

[28699] turned abruptly back (reason of change not stated). On the vigil of the

[29246] One: a squat stuffed easychair, with stout arms extended and back

[29313] In the mirror of the giltbordered pierglass the undecorated back of the

[29314] dwarf tree regarded the upright back of the embalmed owl. Before

18. Penelope

[30650] young girl at Pooles Myriorama and turned my back on him when he slinked

[30691] I just pressed the back of his like that with my thumb to squeeze back

[30877] door he was looking when I looked back and I went there for tea 2 days

[30940] the butchers and had to go back for it what a Deceiver then he wrote me

[30998] then coming back suppose I never came back what would they say eloped

[31051] for a few minutes after he came back with the stoppress tearing up the

[31055] with me after the Glencree dinner coming back that long joult over the

[31072] after one days wear I could have brought them back to Lewers this

[31078] 11/6 obviating that unsightly broad appearance across the lower back to

[31109] hair on her down to her waist tossing it back like that like Kitty OShea

[31256] anything to be back in Gib and hear you sing Waiting and in old Madrid

[31280] it at the back when I put it up and whats this else how to make a knot

[31308] centuries of course they never came back and she didnt put her address

[31433] others back Mrs Rubio said she was a regular old rock scorpion robbing

[31465] drew back the skin it had a kind of eye in it theyre all Buttons men

[31470] hed come back Lord its just like yesterday to me and if I was married

[31482] screaming coming back the same way that we went over middle hill round

[31504] men have to make to the ends of the world and back its the least they

[31549] looooves old deep down chin back not too much make it double My Ladys

[31556] him at it again slobbering after washing every bit of myself back belly

[31575] about in it then make a race back into bed Im sure that fellow opposite

[31631] round the back of the rock they were fine all silver in the fishermens

[31784] all the back ways after to make up for it I wish he had what I had then

[31930] bonnet on the top of his nob let us into by the back way he was throwing

[31949] help it making fun of him then behind his back I know well when he goes

[32012] coming back on the nightboat from Tarifa the lighthouse at Europa point

[32013] the guitar that fellow played was so expressive will I ever go back

[32096] laundry sending me back over and over some old ones odd stockings that

[32172] why not theres the room upstairs empty and Millys bed in the back room

[32216] that he cant keep a thing back I know every turn in him Ill tighten my