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  • Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open.

    November « 2008 « Sentence first 2008

  • Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open.

    Meh 2008

  • Of course if they ran a tramline along the North Circular from the cattlemarket to the quays value would go up like a shot.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Quay, Inns Quay, Rotunda, Mountjoy and North Dock, better run a tramline, I say, from the cattlemarket to the river.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Shortly afterwards we crossed a large open space of land studded with wooden buildings and many cattle-pens which a man told us was now the great cattlemarket for the North, where sales for cattle were held each month -- the next would be due in about a week's time, when from

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Of course if they ran a tramline along the North Circular from the cattlemarket to the quays value would go up like a shot.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Quay, Rotunda, Mountjoy and North Dock, better run a tramline, I say, from the cattlemarket to the river.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Those mornings in the cattlemarket, the beasts lowing in their pens, branded sheep, flop and fall of dung, the breeders in hobnailed boots trudging through the litter, slapping a palm on a ripemeated hindquarter, there's a prime one, unpeeled switches in their hands.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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