Joyce's Ulysses Concordance
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1. Telemachus
  
[114]
sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa 
  
[116]
in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come 
  
[123]
—Our mighty mother! Buck Mulligan said. 
  
[128]
—The aunt thinks you killed your mother, he said. That’s why she 
  
[133]
—You could have knelt down, damn it, Kinch, when your dying mother 
  
[135]
think of your mother begging you with her last breath to kneel down and 
  
[153]
great sweet mother by the wellfed voice beside him. The ring of bay 
  
[175]
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can’t wear grey 
  
[280]
get more hot water. Your mother and some visitor came out of the 
  
[285]
—You said, Stephen answered, O, it’s only Dedalus whose mother is 
  
[295]
—And what is death, he asked, your mother’s or yours or my own? You 
  
[296]
saw only your mother die. I see them pop off every day in the Mater and 
  
[299]
down to pray for your mother on her deathbed when she asked you. Why? 
  
[306]
I didn’t mean to offend the memory of your mother. 
  
[311]
—I am not thinking of the offence to my mother. 
  
[396]
No, mother! Let me be and let me live. 
  
[513]
—When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I 
  
[533]
—Can you recall, brother, is mother Grogan’s tea and water pot 
  
[541]
Mabinogion. Mother Grogan was, one imagines, a kinswoman of Mary Ann. 
  
[869]
     My mother’s a jew, my father’s a bird. 
2. Nestor
  
[1327]
life? His mother’s prostrate body the fiery Columbanus in holy zeal 
  
[1573]
the joust of life. You mean that knockkneed mother’s darling who seems 
3. Proteus
  
[1813]
the silted sand. Like me, like Algy, coming down to our mighty mother. 
  
[1884]
—Malt for Richie and Stephen, tell mother. Where is she? 
  
[2014]
dispossessed. With mother’s money order, eight shillings, the banging 
  
[2030]
—Mother dying come home father. 
  
[2032]
The aunt thinks you killed your mother. That’s why she won’t. 
  
[2374]
day. Of all the glad new year, mother, the rum tum tiddledy tum. Lawn 
4. Calypso
  
[2533]
the evening wind. I pass on. Fading gold sky. A mother watches me from 
5. Lotus Eaters
  
[3703]
Liberty and exaltation of our holy mother the church. The doctors of the 
6. Hades
  
[3981]
stinks all over Dublin. But with the help of God and His blessed mother 
  
[3983]
mother or his aunt or whatever she is that will open her eye as wide as 
  
[4383]
nothing. Mistake of nature. If it’s healthy it’s from the mother. If 
  
[5066]
the holy land. Only a mother and deadborn child ever buried in the one 
7. Aeolus
  
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In mourning for Sallust, Mulligan says. Whose mother is beastly dead. 
8. Lestrygonians
  
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mother goes. Fifteen children he had. Birth every year almost. That’s 
  
[7899]
mother’s son don’t talk of your provosts and provost of Trinity 
9. Scylla and Charybdis
  
[8740]
living mother. The rarefied air of the academy and the arena produce the 
  
[8841]
mother is the guilty queen, Ann Shakespeare, born Hathaway? 
  
[8908]
Mother’s deathbed. Candle. The sheeted mirror. Who brought me into 
  
[8929]
—Dialectic, Stephen answered: and from his mother how to bring 
  
[9125]
—As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said, 
  
[9190]
Will any man love the daughter if he has not loved the mother? 
  
[9495]
mother with her cup of canary for any cockcanary. 
  
[9527]
stallion. Maybe, like Socrates, he had a midwife to mother as he had a 
  
[9749]
Wittenberg then you must hold that his seventyyear old mother is the 
  
[9811]
—As for his family, Stephen said, his mother’s name lives in the 
  
[10242]
     MOTHER GROGAN (a watercarrier) 
10. Wandering Rocks
  
[10958]
him... Chow!... Mother of Moses! 
  
[11284]
them, are you? An insolent pack of little bitches since your poor mother 
11. Sirens
  
[13694]
play. Once by the churchyard he had passed and for his mother’s rest 
12. Cyclops
  
[14307]
Brendan, Marshal MacMahon, Charlemagne, Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Mother 
  
[14611]
the bumbailiff’s daughter, mother kept a kip in Hardwicke street, that 
  
[15110]
Mooney’s sister. And the old prostitute of a mother procuring rooms to 
  
[15305]
a bloody fool to it. Handed him the father and mother of a beating. See 
  
[15688]
luck with his mangy snout up. Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard. 
  
[15772]
—And with the help of the holy mother of God we will again, says the 
  
[16264]
believe, till he knows if he’s a father or a mother. 
13. Nausicaa
  
[16995]
and was buried, God have mercy on him, from a stroke. Her mother’s 
  
[16999]
laid to rest. And her mother said to him to let that be a warning to 
  
[17006]
A sterling good daughter was Gerty just like a second mother in the 
  
[17008]
gold. And when her mother had those raging splitting headaches who was 
  
[17010]
like her mother’s taking pinches of snuff and that was the only single 
  
[17655]
mother’s clothes. Time enough, understand all the ways of the world. 
  
[17677]
understandings. Handed down from father to, mother to daughter, I mean. 
  
[17712]
      And she lived with her mother in Irishtown. 
  
[17841]
the atmosphere. Old Betty’s joints are on the rack. Mother Shipton’s 
  
[17997]
Strange moment for the mother too. Brings back her girlhood. Gibraltar. 
  
[18029]
Hopeless. Some good matronly woman in a porkpie hat to mother him. Take 
14. Oxen of the Sun
  
[18188]
they her by anticipation went seeing mother, that she by them suddenly 
  
[18247]
naked forth from his mother’s womb so naked shall he wend him at the 
  
[18364]
but all cried with one acclaim nay, by our Virgin Mother, the wife 
  
[18391]
be or wheresoever. Then spake young Stephen orgulous of mother Church 
  
[18399]
soul was infused and how in all our holy mother foldeth ever souls for 
  
[18400]
God’s greater glory whereas that earthly mother which was but a dam 
  
[18409]
good for that mother Church belike at one blow had birth and death pence 
  
[18451]
our mighty mother and mother most venerable and Bernardus saith aptly 
  
[18714]
mother’s son of them would burst their sides. The other, Costello that 
  
[18913]
mimic of Mother Grogan (the most excellent creature of her sex though 
  
[19021]
to mother and maid in house of Horne. Having delivered himself of this 
  
[19030]
father and thy mother that had the best hand to a rolypoly or a hasty 
  
[19156]
with respect to the mother, the fratricidal case known as the Childs 
  
[19252]
bandolierwise, and in it a goodly hunk of wheaten loaf, a mother’s 
  
[19289]
dusk, scattering a perennial dew of stars. She follows her mother with 
  
[19335]
mother an orphan. The young man’s face grew dark. All could see how 
  
[19522]
cookable and eatable flesh of a calf newly dropped from its mother. In 
  
[19605]
must needs glance at whiles towards where his mother watches from the 
  
[19634]
stays with nurse a thought to send a kind word to happy mother and 
  
[19668]
man, an udderful! Mother’s milk, Purefoy, the milk of human kin, milk 
15. Circe
  
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false letters. Streetwalking and soliciting. Better for your mother take 
  
[20352]
masonic badge in his buttonhole, black bow and mother-of-pearl studs, a 
  
[21272]
Mother Slipperslapper. (Familiarly.) She’s on the job herself tonight 
  
[21583]
Mecum (journalic), Loveletters of Mother Assistant (erotic), Who’s Who 
  
[21726]
MOTHER GROGAN: (Removes her boot to throw it at Bloom.) You beast! You 
  
[21778]
(Mother Grogan throws her boot at Bloom. Several shopkeepers from upper 
  
[21835]
BLOOM: O, I so want to be a mother. 
  
[21988]
father and mother of a bating. (With a tear in his eye.) All insanity. 
  
[22015]
ZOE: And more’s mother? (She pats him offhandedly with velvet paws.) 
  
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time is 12.25. Tell mother you’ll be there. Rush your order and you 
  
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brown scapular. My mother’s sister married a Montmorency. It was a 
  
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ZOE: (Sniffs his hair briskly.) Hmmm! Thank your mother for the rabbits. 
  
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BELLO: (Jeers.) Little jobs that make mother pleased, eh? And showed off 
  
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or the spoutless statue of the watercarrier, or good mother Alphonsus, 
  
[24354]
SIMON: Think of your mother’s people! 
  
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(Stephen’s mother, emaciated, rises stark through the floor, in leper 
  
[24391]
afflicted mother. (He upturns his eyes.) Mercurial Malachi! 
  
[24393]
THE MOTHER: (With the subtle smile of death’s madness.) I was once the 
  
[24401]
butter fall from his eyes on to the scone.) Our great sweet mother! Epi 
  
[24404]
THE MOTHER: (Comes nearer, breathing upon him softly her breath of 
  
[24409]
you, mother. He offended your memory. Cancer did it, not I. Destiny. 
  
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THE MOTHER: (A green rill of bile trickling from a side of her mouth.) 
  
[24414]
STEPHEN: (Eagerly.) Tell me the word, mother, if you know now. The word 
  
[24417]
THE MOTHER: Who saved you the night you jumped into the train at 
  
[24424]
THE MOTHER: I pray for you in my other world. Get Dilly to make you that 
  
[24434]
THE MOTHER: (With smouldering eyes.) Repent! O, the fire of hell! 
  
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THE MOTHER: (Her face drawing near and nearer, sending out an ashen 
  
[24455]
THE MOTHER: (Wrings her hands slowly, moaning desperately.) O Sacred 
  
[24462]
THE MOTHER: (In the agony of her deathrattle.) Have mercy on Stephen, 
  
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BLOOM: (Communes with the night.) Face reminds me of his poor mother. 
16. Eumaeus
  
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fine residence of its kind and well worth seeing, her mother or aunt or 
  
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to do. No, it was the daughter of the mother in the washkitchen that 
  
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through the mother in some way, both occurrences happening at the same 
  
[26067]
Danny, run off to sea and his mother got him took in a draper’s in 
  
[27083]
mother’s knee in the shape of knowing what good form was came out at 
  
[27416]
image of his mother, which was not quite the same as the usual handsome 
17. Ithaca
  
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street: of his mother Mary, wife of Simon Dedalus, in the kitchen of 
  
[28131]
mother, Stephen being then of the age of 5 and reluctant to give his 
  
[28786]
Because the way to daughter led through mother, the way to mother 
  
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man, hospital nurse, lady, mother of five, absentminded beggar. 
  
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... with your dear mother... that is not more to stand... to her... all 
18. Penelope
  
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can happen without him knowing he hadnt an idea about my mother till we 
  
[31496]
about either or suppose I divorced him Mrs Boylan my mother whoever she 
  
[31651]
murders an old woman for her money imagine his poor wife or mother or 
  
[31852]
I suppose on account of my being jewess looking after my mother he used 
  
[31980]
Kingsbridge station with his father and mother I was in mourning thats 
  
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be a woman and a mother how could they where would they all of them be 
  
[32122]
if they hadnt all a mother to look after them what I never had thats 
  
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God knows who nightwalkers and pickpockets his poor mother wouldnt