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He did write a poem, “The Schooldesk,” about a rainy day in a cottage near Lough Arrow in County Sligo where Tess had visited annually since 1968.11 And he relished a tour of the James Joyce Museum in an old Martello Tower overlooking Dublin Bay, the setting for the opening scene of Ulysses.
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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To surprise the Martello Tower and take the feeble garrison thereunder, was the work of Tom Coxswain and a few of his blue-jackets.
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To surprise the Martello Tower and take the feeble garrison thereunder, was the work of Tom Coxswain and a few of his blue-jackets.
Burlesques 2006
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Town Hall and the Martello Tower, and the Esplanade, and Pitt Street and the High Street, until his companion suddenly shot out a long eager arm and caught him by the wrist.
The Captain of the Polestar Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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To surprise the Martello Tower and take the feeble garrison thereunder, was the work of Tom Coxswain and a few of his blue-jackets.
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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