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1. Telemachus

[271] —Do you remember the first day I went to your house after my

[687] —Our swim first, Buck Mulligan said.

[813] till I have a few pints in me first.

2. Nestor

[1405] of its chairs. As on the first day he bargained with me here. As it was

[1414] —First, our little financial settlement, he said.

[1679] years the Greeks made war on Troy. A faithless wife first brought

3. Proteus

[1939] second bell the first bell in the transept (he is lifting his) and,

4. Calypso

[2634] slowly, behind her moving hams. Pleasant to see first thing in the

[2699] oldest, the first race. A bent hag crossed from Cassidy’s, clutching a

[2877] The first night after the charades. Dolphin’s Barn. He turned over the

[2890] the first fellow all the time?

[2972] Fifteen yesterday. Curious, fifteenth of the month too. Her first

[2976] the first poor little Rudy wouldn’t live. Well, God is good, sir. She

[3007] Milly too. Young kisses: the first. Far away now past. Mrs Marion.

[3086] Quietly he read, restraining himself, the first column and, yielding but

[3111] then night hours. Washing her teeth. That was the first night. Her head

5. Lotus Eaters

[3503] Weak joy opened his lips. Changed since the first letter. Wonder did she

[3599] idea the Latin. Stupefies them first. Hospice for the dying. They

[3612] feel. First communicants. Hokypoky penny a lump. Then feel all like one

[3654] of Rossini. Father Bernard Vaughan’s sermon first. Christ or Pilate?

[3740] last? Wait. I changed a sovereign I remember. First of the month it must

[3750] ought to physic himself a bit. Electuary or emulsion. The first fellow

6. Hades

[3890] Martin Cunningham, first, poked his silkhatted head into the creaking

[4429] hairy. Boots giving evidence. Thought he was asleep first. Then saw like

[4512] —First round Dunphy’s, Mr Dedalus said, nodding. Gordon Bennett cup.

[4651] much dead weight. Felt heavier myself stepping out of that bath. First

[4668] —O God! Mr Power whispered. First I heard of it. Poisoned himself?

[4701] waiting. It never comes. One must go first: alone, under the ground: and

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

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

[5026] power seeing all the others go under first. Wonder how he looks at life.

[5035] nisi prius. Go out of mourning first. Hard to imagine his funeral.

[5055] First thing strikes anybody. Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true

[5097] be damned unpleasant. Can’t believe it at first. Mistake must be:

[5311] Hate at first sight. Molly and Floey Dillon linked under the lilactree,

7. Aeolus

[5547] Let him take that in first.

[5607] Sllt. The nethermost deck of the first machine jogged forward its

[5608] flyboard with sllt the first batch of quirefolded papers. Sllt. Almost

[5637] Three months’ renewal. Want to get some wind off my chest first.

[5654] Reads it backwards first. Quickly he does it. Must require some practice

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

[5732] written this long time perhaps. Living to spite them. Might go first

[6081] Myles Crawford blew his first puff violently towards the ceiling.

[6103] ancestors, as we read in the first chapter of Guinness’s, were partial

[6115] —First my riddle, Lenehan said. Are you ready?

[6399] there first. There was weeping and gnashing of teeth over that. Out of

[6733] The first newsboy came pattering down the stairs at their heels and

8. Lestrygonians

[7154] didn’t think of it himself first. Or the inkbottle I suggested with

[7185] sprained my ankle first day she wore choir picnic at the Sugarloaf.

[7447] First to the meet and in at the death. Strong as a brood mare some of

[7504] nyumnyum. Got her hand crushed by old Tom Wall’s son. His first bow to

[7717] some first Saturday of the month. If I could get an introduction to

[8113] it on the dog first. Led on by the smell or the look. Tempting fruit.

[8121] Jugged hare. First catch your hare. Chinese eating eggs fifty years old,

[8182] she did Pygmalion and Galatea what would she say first? Mortal! Put you

[8265] watch? Ah, you weren’t there. If you ask him to have a drink first

[8358] having fully digested the contents. First sweet then savoury. Mr Bloom

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

[8446] for him. Have to be spoonfed first. Like a child’s hand, his hand.

[8456] —Right now? First turn to the left.

[8535] Messiah was first given for that. Yes. Handel. What about going out

[8539] Mr Bloom came to Kildare street. First I must. Library.

9. Scylla and Charybdis

[8625] First he tickled her

[8669] —The schoolmen were schoolboys first, Stephen said superpolitely.

[8688] must work off bad karma first. Mrs Cooper Oakley once glimpsed our very

[8904] saw him into and out of the world. She took his first embraces. She bore

[9066] first a sundering.

[9181] —Mr Brandes accepts it, Stephen said, as the first play of the closing

[9232] overborne in a cornfield first (ryefield, I should say) and he will

[9235] undoing will undo the first undoing. The tusk of the boar has wounded

[9239] shadow of the first, darkening even his own understanding of himself. A

[9541] first to go, Joan, her four brothers, Judith, her husband and all her

[9543] use granddaddy’s words, wed her second, having killed her first.

[9561] From the first draft but he did not leave out

[9753] Boccaccio’s Calandrino was the first and last man who felt himself

[9963] The other four acts of that play hang limply from that first. Of all his

[10034] the folio of this world and wrote it badly (He gave us light first and

[10172] first child a girl?

10. Wandering Rocks

[10512] Mary Rochfort, daughter of lord Molesworth, first countess of Belvedere.

[10515] Mary, first countess of Belvedere, listlessly walking in the evening,

[10713] —Put these in first, will you? he said.

[11349] do, Mr Crimmins? First rate, sir. I was afraid you might be up in your

[11622] He stood beside them beaming, on them first and on his roomy clothes

[12049] first French primer, saw sunshades spanned and wheelspokes spinning

11. Sirens

[12162] When first he saw. Alas!

[12442] at doors as I. Religion pays. Must see him for that par. Eat first. I

[13012] passed a remark. It was indeed, first gentleman said, beautiful weather.

[13017] of hair slowmoving, lord lieuten. Too much trouble, first gentleman

[13120] gods of the old Royal with little Peake. And when the first note.

[13181] —When first I saw that form endearing...

[13199] seemed to from both depart when first they heard. When first they saw,

[13201] expect it in the least, her first merciful lovesoft oftloved word.

[13254] wait. How first he saw that form endearing, how sorrow seemed to part,

[13263] First night when first I saw her at Mat Dillon’s in Terenure. Yellow,

[13272] warbling. First I saw. She thanked me. Why did she me? Fate. Spanishy

[13310] first gent with tank and bronze Miss Douce and gold Miss Mina.

[13324] coral lips, at first, at second. She did not mind.

[13385] First gentleman told Mina that was so. She asked him was that so. And

[13389] believe: George Lidwell, no: miss Dou did not: the first, the first:

[13551] first make it brown. Buttered toast. O and that lotion mustn’t forget.

[13936] —O, that must be the tuner, Lydia said to Simonlionel first I saw,

[13967] Rooney’s band. Wonder how it first struck him. Sitting at home after

[13996] along the quay towards Mr Bloom. When first he saw that form endearing?

[14017] last rose of summer, rose of Castile. First Lid, De, Cow, Ker, Doll, a

12. Cyclops

[14112] avoirdupois of first choice tea at three shillings and no pence per

[14315] Velasquez, Captain Nemo, Tristan and Isolde, the first Prince of Wales,

[14537] lower astral levels. In reply to a question as to his first sensations

[15414] first.

[15528] the daughter of the skies, the virgin moon being then in her first

[15532] probate court, weighed well and pondered the claim of the first

[15563] telling him he needn’t trouble about that little matter till the first

[15779] first Irish battleship is seen breasting the waves with our own flag

[15992] of the first duke of Wellington, the rock of Cashel, the bog of Allen,

13. Nausicaa

[16655] beginning to lisp his first babyish words. Cissy Caffrey bent over to

[16764] page of the Princess Novelette, who had first advised her to try

[16795] Gerty knew Who came first and after Him the Blessed Virgin and then

[16855] Yes, she had known from the very first that her daydream of a marriage

[16864] one in a strangely husky voice and snatched a half kiss (the first!) but

[17442] his and the first quick hot touch of his handsome lips. Besides there

[17546] sacrifice. Milly delighted with Molly’s new blouse. At first. Put them

[17549] wore a pair of gaiters the night that first we met. His lovely shirt was

[17643] he. First kiss does the trick. The propitious moment. Something inside

[17644] them goes pop. Mushy like, tell by their eye, on the sly. First thoughts

[17722] even closed at first, sour milk in their swaddles and tainted curds.

[17812] of forbidden priest. O, father, will you? Let me be the first to. That

[17992] touch. Loved to count my waistcoat buttons. Her first stays I remember.

[17996] me. Frightened she was when her nature came on her first. Poor child!

[18024] to pop off first. That widow on Monday was it outside Cramer’s that

14. Oxen of the Sun

[18473] The first three months she was not well, Staboo, when here nurse Quigley

[18553] bend. First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed

[18623] but notion and they could conceive no thought of it for, first,

[18646] but dry flag and faggots that would catch at first fire. All the world

[18651] the weatherwise poring up at them and some sheet lightnings at first and

[18659] no more crack after that first. Over against the Rt. Hon. Mr Justice

[18792] lord Harry’s orders. There was bad blood between them at first, says

[18799] himself but the first rule of the course was that the others were to row

[18809] but he could never learn a word of it except the first personal pronoun

[18979] first, said she (and here my pretty philosopher, as I handed her to her

[18981] chamber of my ear), the first is a bath... But at this point a bell

[19033] To revert to Mr Bloom who, after his first entry, had been conscious of

[19044] of wedlock and thrust like a crookback toothed and feet first into the

[19253] thought. Or it is the same figure, a year or so gone over, in his first

[19270] first. Together (she is a poor waif, a child of shame, yours and mine

[19274] remember the night: first night, the bridenight. They are entwined

[19449] science cannot answer—at present—such as the first problem submitted

[19543] to see), in the first bloom of her new motherhood, breathing a silent

15. Circe

[19963] sense but the first entelechy, the structural rhythm.

[20108] and bones at midnight. A fence more likely. First place murderer makes

[20218] water. Shop closes early on Thursday. But the first thing in the

[20557] Westland row. Then jump in first class with third ticket. Then too far.

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

[20605] FIRST WATCH: Caught in the act. Commit no nuisance.

[20647] FIRST WATCH: Come. Name and address.

[20654] FIRST WATCH: Proof.

[20663] FIRST WATCH: (Reads.) Henry Flower. No fixed abode. Unlawfully watching

[20675] the first watch.) Still, of course, you do get your Waterloo sometimes.

[20689] FIRST WATCH: (Sternly.) Come to the station.

[20717] FIRST WATCH: Regiment.

[20727] BLOOM: (His hand on the shoulder of the first watch.) My old dad too was

[20734] FIRST WATCH: Profession or trade.

[20797] FIRST WATCH: The King versus Bloom. Call the woman Driscoll.

[20811] FIRST WATCH: What do you tax him with?

[20825] FIRST WATCH: The offence complained of? Did something happen?

[21122] FIRST WATCH: He is a marked man. Another girl’s plait cut. Wanted:

[21175] FIRST WATCH: Infernal machine with a time fuse.

[21179] FIRST WATCH: (Draws his truncheon.) Liar!

[21201] FIRST WATCH: It is not in the penny catechism.

[21467] puissant ruler of this realm. God save Leopold the First!

[21469] ALL: God save Leopold the First!

[21942] the flatties. Nip the first rattler.

[22062] ZOE: Ladies first, gentlemen after.

[22478] attract friend Bruin more than half a dozen barrels of first choice malt

[22694] heart, mine love. (He plucks his lutestrings.) When first I saw...

[23091] a little chilly at first in such delicate thighcasing but the frilly

[23196] the wedding to fondle my new attraction in gilded heels. First I’ll

[23282] diamond panes, cries out.) I see her! It’s she! The first night at

[23648] BLOOM: (Contemptuously.) Clean your nailless middle finger first, your

[24049] Remember Pasiphae for whose lust my grandoldgrossfather made the first

[25034] FIRST WATCH: What’s wrong here?

[25061] FIRST WATCH: (Takes out his notebook.) What’s his name?

[25066] FIRST WATCH: Name and address.

[25080] FIRST WATCH: (Turns to the crowd.) Here, what are you all gaping at?

[25089] FIRST WATCH: (Laughs.) I suppose so.

[25108] FIRST WATCH: O. I understand, sir.

[25112] FIRST WATCH: It was only in case of corporal injuries I’d have to

16. Eumaeus

[25313] Talbot place, first turning on the right, while the other who was acting

[25441] Corley at the first go-off was inclined to suspect it was something to

[25595] certain drowning by artificial respiration and what they call first

[25649] Accordingly his first act was with characteristic sangfroid to order

[25821] circumnavigated a bit since I first joined on. I was in the Red Sea.

[26178] of from the very first start. Whoever embarked on a policy of the sort,

[26194] possibility of its annihilation by its First Cause Who, from all I

[26286] entire fabrication though at first blush there was not much inherent

[26763] allembracing give us this day our daily press. First he got a bit of a

[26799] —Is that first epistle to the Hebrews, he asked as soon as his bottom

[26802] —It is. Really, Mr Bloom said (though first he fancied he alluded to

[26890] sound the lie of the land first.

[26893] commented. She put the first nail in his coffin.

[26908] of sweet nothings. First it was strictly Platonic till nature intervened

[26965] the first land called the Deadman and from Ramhead to Scilly was so and

[27070] him upon a pedestal which she, however, was the first to perceive.

[27158] evicted tenants question, then at its first inception, bulked largely

[27282] To cut a long story short Bloom, grasping the situation, was the first

[27283] to rise from his seat so as not to outstay their welcome having first

[27340] follow at the first go-off but the music of Mercadante’s Huguenots,

[27343] of first class music as such, literally knocking everything else into

[27437] which Bloom appreciated at the very first note he got out, could easily,

17. Ithaca

[27578] and Dublin) at first no bigger than a woman’s hand.

[27662] at its freely moving flange and by leverage of the first kind applied

[27711] of his first residence in Dublin, number thirteen Fitzgibbon street:

[28038] What lines concluded his first piece of original verse written by him,

[28060] What acrostic upon the abbreviation of his first name had he (kinetic

[28129] Two. The first in the lilacgarden of Matthew Dillon’s house, Medina

[28242] matriculation, first arts, second arts and arts degree courses of the

[28534] Why was the chant arrested at the conclusion of this first distich?

[28591] Recite the first (major) part of this chanted legend.

[28595] And the very first ball little Harry Hughes played

[28599] How did the son of Rudolph receive this first part?

[28704] Did that first division, portending a second division, afflict him?

[28918] What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the

[29100] At Stephen’s suggestion, at Bloom’s instigation both, first Stephen,

[29103] their gazes, first Bloom’s, then Stephen’s, elevated to the

[29108] The trajectories of their, first sequent, then simultaneous, urinations

[29214] first golden limb of the resurgent sun perceptible low on the horizon.

[29781] first, vast number of the second and immense quantity of the third,

[29868] What did the first drawer unlocked contain?

[30034] What first reminiscence had he of Rudolph Bloom (deceased)?

[30330] To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to

[30332] the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first,

[30333] last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor

[30338] Assuming Mulvey to be the first term of his series, Penrose, Bartell

[30361] transmitted, first with alarm, then with understanding, then with

18. Penelope

[30617] of the world let us have a bit of fun first God help the world if all

[30713] all the talk of the world about it people make its only the first time

[30715] cant you kiss a man without going and marrying him first you sometimes

[30794] he was gone on me and the first socialist he said He was he annoyed me

[30879] crossing them when we were in the other room first he meant the shoes

[30964] it was a putoff first him sending the port and the peaches first and I

[31024] bad I love to see a regiment pass in review the first time I saw the

[31057] eyes Val Dillon that big heathen I first noticed him at dessert when I

[31088] out of the cheque he got on the first O no there was the face lotion

[31113] prince of Wales was in love with I suppose hes like the first man going

[31130] a child that big taken out of her and I thought first it came out of her

[31145] first he was as stiff as the mischief really and truly Mrs Bloom only I

[31165] first time after him being insulted and me being supposed to be his wife

[31285] when I was with father and Captain Grove I looked up at the church first

[31294] the Moonstone to read that was the first I read of Wilkie Collins East

[31394] Mulveys was the first when I was in bed that morning and Mrs Rubio

[31416] near the time he was the first man kissed me under the Moorish wall my

[31449] but I wouldnt let him he was awfully put out first for fear you never

[31461] life out of him first tickling him I loved rousing that dog in the hotel

[31541] it I was afraid he mightnt like my accent first he so English all father

[31545] first thats fit to be looked at and a daughter like mine or see if they

[31605] toenails first like he does with the letters no not with Boylan there

[31637] in the confusion musical academy he was going to make on the first floor

[31668] with her in the place lately unless I bolted the door first gave me the

[31669] fidgets coming in without knocking first when I put the chair against

[31804] and skirt first in the other room he was so busy where he oughtnt to be

[31850] the first night ever we met when I was living in Rehoboth terrace we

[31905] little habit tomorrow first Ill look at his shirt to see or Ill see if

[31932] wink at him first no use of course and thats the way his money goes this

[31964] was always turning up half screwed singing the second verse first the

[31982] mourning for what was neither one thing nor the other the first cry was

[31999] when I was a girl first I thought he was a poet like lord Byron and not

[32149] name Id go and drown myself in the first river if I had a name like

[32218] the first mad thing comes into my head then Ill suggest about yes O wait

[32237] brings him home tomorrow today I mean no no Fridays an unlucky day first

[32239] asleep then we can have music and cigarettes I can accompany him first I

[32254] call themselves go and wash the cobbles off themselves first then they

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

[32262] propose to me yes first I gave him the bit of seedcake out of my mouth

[32269] leading him on till he asked me to say yes and I wouldnt answer first

[32296] say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and