Joyce's Ulysses Concordance

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1. Telemachus

[642] —Have you your bill? We had better pay her, Mulligan, hadn’t we?

[1037] —Better ask Seymour that.

2. Nestor

[1372] —You had better get your stick and go out to the others, Stephen said

[1592] was no better than she should be. To come to the point at issue.

[1678] better than she should be, Helen, the runaway wife of Menelaus, ten

3. Proteus

[1905] better. We have nothing in the house but backache pills.

[2330] low rocks, swirling, passing. Better get this job over quick. Listen: a

[2383] His hand groped vainly in his pockets. No, I didn’t. Better buy one.

4. Calypso

[2444] They call them stupid. They understand what we say better than we

[2470] Better a pork kidney at Dlugacz’s. While the kettle is boiling. She

[2472] rough? To lap better, all porous holes. Nothing she can eat? He glanced

[2654] after an instant. No: better not: another time.

[2907] The sluggish cream wound curdling spirals through her tea. Better remind

[2908] her of the word: metempsychosis. An example would be better. An example?

[3016] Better where she is down there: away. Occupy her. Wanted a dog to pass

[3072] He kicked open the crazy door of the jakes. Better be careful not to get

[3130] is the funeral? Better find out in the paper.

5. Lotus Eaters

[3717] Better be shoving along. Brother Buzz. Come around with the plate

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

[3731] Time enough yet. Better get that lotion made up. Where is this? Ah yes,

[3823] Barber’s itch. Tight collar he’ll lose his hair. Better leave him

6. Hades

[3919] sitting on something hard. Ah, that soap: in my hip pocket. Better shift

[4040] clean. But I wish Mrs Fleming had darned these socks better.

[4332] —We had better look a little serious, Martin Cunningham said.

[4384] not from the man. Better luck next time.

[4520] quickly. Much better to close up all the orifices. Yes, also. With wax.

[4533] would be better to bury them in red: a dark red.

[4560] —Better ask Tom Kernan, Mr Dedalus said.

[4592] the law. Better for ninetynine guilty to escape than for one innocent

[4707] —Never better. How are all in Cork’s own town?

[4780] My kneecap is hurting me. Ow. That’s better.

[4790] better to have boy servants. Up to fifteen or so. After that, of course

[4833] —She’s better where she is, he said kindly.

[4979] Be the better of a shave. Grey sprouting beard. That’s the first sign

[5032] Keep out the damp. You must laugh sometimes so better do it that way.

[5229] garlands of bronzefoil. Better value that for the money. Still, the

[5277] Cremation better. Priests dead against it. Devilling for the other firm.

7. Aeolus

[5563] Better not teach him his own business.

[5577] he didn’t know only make it awkward for him. Better not.

[5669] him out perhaps. Better phone him up first. Number? Yes. Same as

8. Lestrygonians

[7474] the Burton. Better. On my way.

[7804] Duke street. Here we are. Must eat. The Burton. Feel better then.

[7981] Music. Knows as much about it as my coachman. Still better tell him.

[8093] Will I tell him that horse Lenehan? He knows already. Better let him

[8101] cheese. Nice wine it is. Taste it better because I’m not thirsty. Bath

[8220] taking it home to his better half. She’s well nourished, I tell you.

[8369] Feel better. Burgundy. Good pick me up. Who distilled first? Some

[8438] Say something to him. Better not do the condescending. They mistrust

9. Scylla and Charybdis

[9919] Best of Best brothers. Good, better, best.

10. Wandering Rocks

[11415] in the wall. Dignam is there now. Went out in a puff. Well, well. Better

[11990] saw his tongue and his teeth trying to say it better. Poor pa. That was

11. Sirens

[13157] Piano again. Sounds better than last time I heard. Tuned probably.

[13257] Wish I could see his face, though. Explain better. Why the barber in

[13259] Still hear it better here than in the bar though farther.

[13338] all his life a note like that he never did then false one we had better

[13381] —Don’t make half so free, said she, till we are better acquainted.

[13393] Better write it here. Quills in the postoffice chewed and twisted.

[13400] is this wrote? Know the name you know better. Take out sheet notepaper,

[13481] know how. In haste. Henry. Greek ee. Better add postscript. What is he

[13840] —Better, said Tomgin Kernan. Most trenchant rendition of that ballad,

[13909] Cowley, he stuns himself with it: kind of drunkenness. Better give way

12. Cyclops

[14267] —Never better, a chara, says he. What Garry? Are we going to win? Eh?

[14981] has nothing better to do ought to write a letter pro bono publico to the

[15090] heart, I feel sure, will dictate to you better than my inadequate words

[15215] —Put it there, citizen, says Joe. You were and a bloody sight better.

[16149] better or she’s (ow!) all a plan so he could vamoose with the pool if

13. Nausicaa

[16737] taking of late had done her a world of good much better than the Widow

[16738] Welch’s female pills and she was much better of those discharges she

[16783] morning. She knew right well, no-one better, what made squinty Edy

[17299] better than he knew. Lighthearted deceiver and fickle like all his sex

[17460] too, nainsook knickers, the fabric that caresses the skin, better than

[17539] Reserve better. Don’t want it they throw it at you. Catch em alive, O.

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

[17848] flash better. Women. Light is a kind of reassuring. Not going to hurt

[17849] you. Better now of course than long ago. Country roads. Run you through

[17913] like hopping mice. What frightens them, light or noise? Better sit

[17988] After getting better asleep with Molly. Very same teeth she has. What do

[18006] Better not stick here all night like a limpet. This weather makes you

[18043] brought it near his eyes and peered. Letter? No. Can’t read. Better

[18044] go. Better. I’m tired to move. Page of an old copybook. All those

14. Oxen of the Sun

[18514] young sir, better were they named Beau Mount and Lecher for, by my

[18675] now better, he having dreamed tonight a strange fancy of his dame Mrs

[18763] properly gelded by a college of doctors who were no better off than

[19129] unfledged profligates let his practice consist better with the doctrines

[19199] pleasantry which none better than he knew how to affect, postulating as

[19206] better to show by preternatural gravity that curious dignity of the

[19442] It had better be stated here and now at the outset that the perverted

15. Circe

[20038] him. Run. Quick. Better cross here.

[20274] false letters. Streetwalking and soliciting. Better for your mother take

[20584] Better speak to him first. Like women they like rencontres. Stinks like

[20696] a hatchet. I am wrongfully accused. Better one guilty escape than

[20858] rural of happiness of the better land with Dockrell’s wallpaper at one

[21338] device. (Lewdly.) The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder

[21356] Quay, Rotunda, Mountjoy and North Dock, better run a tramline, I say,

[22829] That priest. Must come. Better late than never. Try truffles at Andrews.

[23129] And really it’s better the position... because often I used to wet...

[23234] long straight seam trailing up beyond the knee, appeal to the better

[23767] BLOOM: (Quietly.) You had better hand over that cash to me to take care

[23791] LYNCH: (Watching him.) You would have a better chance of lighting it if

[24088] diamonds very amiable costumed. Or do you are fond better what belongs

[24758] THE BAWD: The red’s as good as the green. And better. Up the soldiers!

16. Eumaeus

[25451] still Stephen’s feelings got the better of him in a sense though he

[25785] his better half, wrecked in his affections. You little expected me

[26228] Hamlet and Bacon, as, you who know your Shakespeare infinitely better

[26545] feeling and most properly it was better to give people like that the

[26638] they’d try to live better, at least so I think. That’s the juggle on

[27027] linen slightly soiled, good as new, much better in fact with the starch

[27448] to so as to the better worm his way into their good graces as he, a

18. Penelope

[30627] serious the matter with him its much better for them to go into a

[30682] weeks notice I saw to that better do without them altogether do out the

[30771] so much the better in case any of it wasnt washed out properly the last

[30980] anything of course he didnt believe me no its better hes going where

[31034] round with him shopping buying those things in a new city better leave

[31039] not a marrying man so somebody better get it out of him if I could find

[31044] to lie down for them better for him put it into me from behind the way

[31301] O this blanket is too heavy on me thats better I havent even one decent

[31303] fooling thats better I used to be weltering then in the heat my shift

[31493] looking blooming Josie used to say after I married him well its better

[31555] feel I want to I feel some wind in me better go easy not wake him have

[31559] to let a fart God or do the least thing better yes hold them like that

[31567] my nose up with smuts better than having him leaving the gas on all

[31610] bee bit him better the seaside but Id never again in this life get into

[31623] wasnt wanted if there was a row on youd vomit a better face there was no

[31657] that hed be much use still better than nothing the night I was sure

[31785] hed boo I bet the cat itself is better off than us have we too much

[31809] dont forget I bet he never saw a better pair of thighs than that look

[31863] gelatine still round it O I laughed myself sick at him that day I better

[31880] theyll have something better for us in the other world tying ourselves

[31946] or just getting better of it and hes a goodlooking man still though

[32056] better to say for himself an old Lion would O well I suppose its because

[32115] I dont care what anybody says itd be much better for the world to be

[32222] to wear the old things so much the better itll be more pointed hell

[32234] something only I only wore it twice better lower this lamp and try again