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  • The driver never said a word, good, bad or indifferent, but merely watched the two figures, as he sat on his lowbacked car, both black, one full, one lean, walk towards the railway bridge, TO

    Ulysses 2003

  • She sat in the lowbacked chair by the large window in the central parlor of her apartments, the one which overlooked the hot blank stone of the central courtyard.

    The Gunslinger King, Stephen, 1947- 1982

  • The driver never said a word, good, bad or indifferent, but merely watched the two figures, as he sat on his lowbacked car, both black, one full, one lean, walk towards the railway bridge, _to be married by

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • As they walked they at times stopped and walked again continuing their _tête-à-tête_ (which, of course, he was utterly out of) about sirens enemies of man's reason, mingled with a number of other topics of the same category, usurpers, historical cases of the kind while the man in the sweeper car or you might as well call it in the sleeper car who in any case couldn't possibly hear because they were too far simply sat in his seat near the end of lower Gardiner street _and looked after their lowbacked car_.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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