Joyce's Ulysses Concordance

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1. Telemachus

[886] He capered before them down towards the fortyfoot hole, fluttering his

[899] —O, Haines said, you have heard it before?

[947] A crazy queen, old and jealous. Kneel down before me.

[956] Haines detached from his underlip some fibres of tobacco before he

[1078] Mulligan erect, with joined hands before him, said solemnly:

2. Nestor

[1511] of the union twenty years before O’Connell did or before the prelates

[1552] Stephen seated himself noiselessly before the princely presence. Framed

[1611] He raised his forefinger and beat the air oldly before his voice spoke.

[1718] City Arms hotel. I asked him to lay my letter before the meeting. You

3. Proteus

[1781] Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By

[1831] They clasped and sundered, did the coupler’s will. From before the

[2133] A bloated carcass of a dog lay lolled on bladderwrack. Before him the

[2348] said. Found drowned. High water at Dublin bar. Driving before it a loose

4. Calypso

[2592] He halted before Dlugacz’s window, staring at the hanks of sausages,

[2902] after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That

[2903] we all lived before on the earth thousands of years ago or some other

[2911] Photo Bits: Splendid masterpiece in art colours. Tea before you put milk

[2922] Her spoon ceased to stir up the sugar. She gazed straight before her,

[3023] Wants to go out. Wait before a door sometime it will open. Let her wait.

[3075] limewash and stale cobwebs he undid his braces. Before sitting down he

5. Lotus Eaters

[3168] In Westland row he halted before the window of the Belfast and Oriental

[3273] Mr Bloom gazed across the road at the outsider drawn up before the door

[3417] the Adelphi in London waited all the afternoon to get in. Year before

[3484] meet you. Henry dear, do not deny my request before my patience are

[3622] instant before it, showing a large grey bootsole from under the lace

[3724] me before. Still like you better untidy. Good job it wasn’t farther

[3727] black marble bowl while before him and behind two worshippers

6. Hades

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

[4138] fled. Before my patience are exhausted.

[4576] On the curbstone before Jimmy Geary, the sexton’s, an old tramp

[4637] Coffin now. Got here before us, dead as he is. Horse looking round at it

[4660] —I was in mortal agony with you talking of suicide before Bloom.

[4743] light. The coffin lay on its bier before the chancel, four tall yellow

[4785] were before you rested. It’s all written down: he has to do it.

[4983] before her. It might thrill her first. Courting death. Shades of night

[5148] So he was before he got the job in the morgue under Louis Byrne. Good

[5286] before he’s well dead. Got wind of Dignam. They wouldn’t care about

7. Aeolus

[5355] Before Nelson’s pillar trams slowed, shunted, changed trolley, started

[5685] I forgot. Just to see: before: dressing. No. Here. No.

[5871] —Drink! the editor cried. No drinks served before mass.

[6011] —Begone! he said. The world is before you.

[6312] the invincibles, murder in the Phoenix park, before you were born, I

[6422] were up before the recorder...

[6539] Myles Crawford. Lenehan lit their cigarettes as before and took his

[6659] and bowed his spirit before that arrogant admonition he would never have

8. Lestrygonians

[7015] Before Rudy was born. The phosphorescence, that bluey greeny. Very good

[7180] O’Reilly emptying the port into his soup before the flag fell. Bobbob

[7503] she said. The spoon of pap in her mouth before she fed them. O, that’s

[7510] Before the huge high door of the Irish house of parliament a flock of

[7595] before it gets too cold. Halffed enthusiasts. Penny roll and a walk with

[7662] Coming events cast their shadows before. With the approval of the

[7690] He crossed at Nassau street corner and stood before the window of Yeates

[7754] good. Where Pat Kinsella had his Harp theatre before Whitbred ran the

[7852] eat all before him, old chap picking his tootles. Slight spasm, full,

[7853] chewing the cud. Before and after. Grace after meals. Look on this

[8039] —For near a month, man, before it came off. Sucking duck eggs by God

[8074] seven to one against Saint Amant a fortnight before.

[8218] before yesterday and he coming out of that Irish farm dairy John Wyse

[8320] Tom Rochford spilt powder from a twisted paper into the water set before

[8323] —That cursed dyspepsia, he said before drinking.

[8424] line and saw again the dyeworks’ van drawn up before Drago’s. Where

9. Scylla and Charybdis

[8617] before his death.

[8826] the young player who stands before him beyond the rack of cerecloth,

[8901] for ever. She died, for literature at least, before she was born.

[9117] Shakespeare is Hamlet you have a stern task before you.

[9244] —The soul has been before stricken mortally, a poison poured in the

[9486] answered from the capon’s blankets: William the conqueror came before

[10187] Before my thoughts begin to run

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

10. Wandering Rocks

[10314] crutches, growled some notes. He jerked short before the convent of the

[10547] Nones. He should have read that before lunch. But lady Maxwell had come.

[10726] H. E. L. Y.’S filed before him, tallwhitehatted, past Tangier lane,

[10878] and the original jews’ temple was here too before they built their

[10879] synagogue over in Adelaide road. You were never here before, Jack, were

[10952] —No, Ned Lambert gasped, I caught a... cold night before... blast your

[10953] soul... night before last... and there was a hell of a lot of draught...

[11098] the morning after the night before. Coming home it was a gorgeous

[11378] Mr Kernan halted and preened himself before the sloping mirror of Peter

[11516] Who has passed here before me? How to soften chapped hands. Recipe for

[11702] Conmee and laid the whole case before him.

[11810] before his cool unfriendly eyes, not quickly. In saddles of the leaders,

[11907] stickumbrelladustcoat dangling, shunned the lamp before Mr Law Smith’s

[11960] science was Jem Corbet before Fitzsimons knocked the stuffings out of

11. Sirens

[12868] He ambled Dollard, bulky slops, before them (hold that fellow with the:

[12977] Pat served, uncovered dishes. Leopold cut liverslices. As said before

[13043] Bloom ate liv as said before. Clean here at least. That chap in the

[13214] Last look at mirror always before she answers the door. The hall.

[13312] Blazes Boylan’s smart tan shoes creaked on the barfloor, said before.

[13314] reverend father Theobald Mathew, jaunted, as said before just now.

[13611] Hissss. Now. Maybe now. Before.

[13806] Get out before the end. Thanks, that was heavenly. Where’s my hat.

[14016] glasses all, brighteyed and gallant, before bronze Lydia’s tempting

12. Cyclops

[14102] summonsed up before the court, so I will, for trading without a licence.

[14341] —I saw him before I met you, says I, sloping around by Pill lane and

[14556] responsible for the carrying out of the interment arrangements. Before

[14782] are by our side and the foes we hate before us.

[14802] M-ll-g-n who sang The Night before Larry was stretched in their usual

[14952] his throat till the Lord would call him before you’d ever see the

[15183] possession of the evidence produced before a committee of the whole

[15417] hear him before a judge and jury.

[15523] dare you, sir, come up before me and ask me to make an order! A poor

[15767] Spain and the French and with the Flemings before those mongrels were

[16161] mouseabout. Mr Bloom with his argol bargol. And his old fellow before

[16268] —O, by God, says Ned, you should have seen Bloom before that son of

[16270] buying a tin of Neave’s food six weeks before the wife was delivered.

13. Nausicaa

[16852] though not too much because she knew how to cry nicely before the

[16903] perfectly served, for their own two selves and before he went out to

[16964] storms of this weary world, kneeling before the feet of the immaculate,

[17204] Sparrow’s of George’s street on the Tuesday, no the Monday before

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

[17218] mile before you found a head of hair the like of that. She could almost

[17443] was absolution so long as you didn’t do the other thing before being

[17468] offered like those skirtdancers behaving so immodest before gentlemen

[17483] stands silent, with bowed head before those young guileless eyes. What a

[17687] before we left Lombard street west. Me have a nice pace. Mullingar. Who

[17766] Wonder how is she feeling in that region. Shame all put on before third

[17783] was wearing her black and it had the perfume of the time before. Good

[17829] Here’s this nobleman passed before. Blown in from the bay. Just went

[17890] Louy, Hetty. Molly too. Eightyseven that was. Year before we. And the

14. Oxen of the Sun

[18191] Before born bliss babe had. Within womb won he worship. Whatever in that

[18355] now was trespassed out of this world and the self night next before her

[18531] hast thou done this abomination before me that thou didst spurn me for

[18574] mark and shrank together and his pitch that was before so haught uplift

[18658] before bonedry and not one chair or coach or fiacre seen about but

[18742] before actuary for Mr Joseph Cuffe, a worthy salesmaster that drove his

[18762] but before he came over farmer Nicholas that was a eunuch had him

[18972] today that she would dance in a deluge before ever she would starve in

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

[19265] month before. But hey, presto, the mirror is breathed on and the young

[19321] Francis was reminding Stephen of years before when they had been at

[19404] before’s observations about boyhood days and the turf, recollecting

[19428] before the hearth but on either flank of it the figure of Bannon in

[19539] was very very happy. Those who have passed on, who have gone before,

[19584] The stranger still regarded on the face before him a slow recession of

[19614] ago. But as before the lightning the serried stormclouds, heavy with

[19730] boil! My tipple. Merci. Here’s to us. How’s that? Leg before wicket.

15. Circe

[19848] (The Mabbot street entrance of nighttown, before which stretches

[20181] costume stands before him. Opulent curves fill out her scarlet trousers

[20263] night before the polis in plain clothes sees us. Sixtyseven is a bitch.

[20924] was not accessory before the act and prosecutrix has not been tampered

[21094] exposes a marble timepiece. Before him Father Conroy and the reverend

[21250] the rifts of fog. A piano sounds. He stands before a lighted house,

[21337] BLOOM: (As before.) Rarely smoke, dear. Cigar now and then. Childish

[21348] a hundred years before another person whose name I forget brought the

[22592] Zoe mou sas agapo. Have a notion I was here before. When was it not

[22793] ZOE: (Tears open the silverfoil.) Fingers was made before forks. (She

[22860] before? Was then she him you us since knew? Am all them and the same now

[22872] speak, with an unposted letter bearing the extra regulation fee before

[22902] courtesy. I knelt once before today. Ah!

[22961] in.) Footstool! Feel my entire weight. Bow, bondslave, before the

[23048] prayed before. (He thrusts out a figged fist and foul cigar.) Here,

[23059] before you.

[23195] ladylike, the colonel, above all, when they come here the night before

[23383] BLOOM: (Lifts a turtle head towards her lap.) We have met before. On

[23634] (The figure of Bella Cohen stands before him.)

[23770] STEPHEN: (Hands him all his coins.) Be just before you are generous.

[23775] STEPHEN: Why striking eleven? Proparoxyton. Moment before the next

[24015] ZOE: Before you’re twice married and once a widower.

[24288] twilight hours retreat before them. They are masked, with daggered hair

[24993] BLOOM: (Runs to Stephen.) Come along with me now before worse happens.

16. Eumaeus

[25335] an appearance in the court next day before Mr Tobias or, he being the

[25373] happened before but it cost him no small effort before he remembered

[25493] he was lagged the night before last and fined ten bob for a drunk and

[25635] before, the former having previously whispered to the latter a few

[25654] some appreciable time before transferring his rapt attention to the

[25981] snapped the blade to and stowed the weapon in question away as before in

[26025] Our soi-disant sailor munched heavily awhile hungrily before answering:

[26114] of before.

[26190] and concentrate and remember before he could say:

[26208] though I believe it was before his time Galileo was the man, I mean,

[26424] probability from dictates of humanity knowing him before shifted about

[26425] and shuffled in his box before composing his limbs again in to the arms

[26576] had heard not so long before the same identical lingo as he told Stephen

[26724] such as the Cornwall case a number of years before under their veneer in

[26855] eventually died of it amid widespread regret before a fortnight was at

[26858] even before there was absolutely no clue as to his whereabouts which

[26969] means, I never heard that rumour before. Possible, especially there, it

[27148] —The day before yesterday, Stephen said, improving on himself.

17. Ithaca

[27535] disparate, at relaxed walking pace they crossed both the circus before

[27602] 1886, 1888, 1892, 1893, 1904 did Bloom make before their arrival at

[27631] What were then the alternatives before the, premeditatedly

[28104] 16 years before in 1888 when Bloom was of Stephen’s present age

[28180] catarrhal deafness: the younger, her lamp of colza oil before the statue

[29027] other constellations some years before or after the birth or death of

[29043] present before its probable spectators had entered actual present

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

[29842] recollection of the past when practised habitually before retiring for

[29912] Victoria: a chart of the measurements of Leopold Bloom compiled before,

[30218] What past consecutive causes, before rising preapprehended, of

[30219] accumulated fatigue did Bloom, before rising, silently recapitulate?

18. Penelope

[30609] Yes because he never did a thing like that before as ask to get his

[30656] sly if they only knew him as well as I do yes because the day before

[30665] or knew before that way though Id like to find out so long as I dont

[30818] out too much the night before talking of dreams so I didnt want to let

[30827] was too beautiful for a man and he was a little before we got engaged

[30860] leave us as wise as we were before she must have been madly in love with

[30866] noticed at once even before he was introduced when I was in the D B C

[30892] polite I think I saw his face before somewhere I noticed him when I was

[30915] from behind following in the rain I saw him before he saw me however

[31033] had before to keep in the drawer with them it would be exciting going

[31112] know her the day before we left and that Mrs Langtry the jersey lily the

[31193] it before I tore it up like a sausage or something I wonder theyre not

[31246] Gibraltar my goodness the heat there before the levanter came on black

[31325] ship and old Sprague the consul that was there from before the flood

[31428] too short then the day before he left May yes it was May when the infant

[31477] little knows what I did with her beloved husband before he ever dreamt

[31618] his flannel trousers Id like to have tattered them down off him before

[31673] little gimcrack statue with her roughness and carelessness before she

[31696] windowsill before all the people passing they all look at her like me

[31736] didnt sleep the night before cheese I ate was it and I told her over and

[31818] doctor only it would be like before I married him when I had that white

[31990] before I thought it meant him but hes no chicken nor a stranger either

[32050] pulling off his shoes and trousers there on the chair before me so

[32079] shrivelled hag before my time living with him so cold never embracing

[32083] kind of expression in us all of us the same 2 lumps of lard before ever

[32257] well who was the first person in the universe before there was anybody