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Their mudcabins and their shielings by the roadside were laid low by the batteringram and the TIMES rubbed its hands and told the whitelivered Saxons there would soon be as few Irish in Ireland as redskins in America.
Ulysses 2003
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Although he could not hear it, every crash of the batteringram shook him to his foundation, as it did the church.
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Their mudcabins and their shielings by the roadside were laid low by the batteringram and the _Times_ rubbed its hands and told the whitelivered Saxons there would soon be as few Irish in Ireland as redskins in America.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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