Joyce's Ulysses Concordance

Episodes text

  1. Telemachus
  2. Nestor
  3. Proteus
  4. Calypso
  5. Lotus Eaters
  6. Hades
  7. Aeolus
  8. Lestrygonians
  9. Scylla and Charybdis
  10. Wandering Rocks
  11. Sirens
  12. Cyclops
  13. Nausicaa
  14. Oxen of the Sun
  15. Circe
  16. Eumaeus
  17. Ithaca
  18. Penelope

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2. Nestor

[1642] knew the rancours massed about them and knew their zeal was vain. Vain

4. Calypso

[2990] Ripening now. Vain: very.

6. Hades

[4609] trees, white forms and fragments streaming by mutely, sustaining vain
[4698] in the end she put a few violets in her bonnet. Vain in her heart of

10. Wandering Rocks

[10813] trotted on stout trousers after the Dalkey tram. In vain he trotted,
[10814] signalling in vain among the rout of barekneed gillies smuggling

11. Sirens

[12545] He droned in vain. Miss Douce turned to her tea aside.

13. Nausicaa

[16854] upon a face infinitely sad and wistful. Gerty MacDowell yearns in vain.

14. Oxen of the Sun

[19150] tongues. In vain the voice of Mr Canvasser Bloom was heard endeavouring
[19226] camping out. In vain! His spectre stalks me. Dope is my only hope... Ah!
[19281] illusion of thy strength was taken from thee—and in vain. No son of

18. Penelope

[31398] in the face with her switch of false hair on her and vain about her