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  • The director stood in the embrasure of the window, his back to the light, leaning an elbow on the brown crossblind, and, as he spoke and smiled, slowly dangling and looping the cord of the other blind, Stephen stood before him, following for a moment with his eyes the waning of the long summer daylight above the roofs or the slow deft movements of the priestly fingers.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • The director stood in the embrasure of the window, his back to the light, leaning an elbow on the brown crossblind, and, as he spoke and smiled, slowly dangling and looping the cord of the other blind,

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

  • The director stood in the embrasure of the window, his back to the light, leaning an elbow on the brown crossblind, and, as he spoke and smiled, slowly dangling and looping the cord of the other blind, Stephen stood before him, following for a moment with his eyes the waning of the long summer daylight above the roofs or the slow deft movements of the priestly fingers.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

  • Both smiled over the crossblind at the file of capering newsboys in Mr

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Bronze by gold, Miss Kennedy's head by Miss Douce's head, appeared above the crossblind of the Ormond hotel.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • The director stood in the embrasure of the window, his back to the light, leaning an elbow on the brown crossblind, and, as he spoke and smiled, slowly dangling and looping the cord of the other blind,

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1911

  • Miss Douce's brave eyes, unregarded, turned from the crossblind, smitten by sunlight.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • -- He'll get that advertisement, the professor said, staring through his blackrimmed spectacles over the crossblind.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Bronze by gold, miss Douce's head by miss Kennedy's head, over the crossblind of the Ormond bar heard the viceregal hoofs go by, ringing steel.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Above the crossblind of the Ormond hotel, gold by bronze,

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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