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084.01direction of Moscas, he first got rid of a few mitsmillers and
084.01+Spanish moscas: flies, houseflies
084.01+Moscow, Russia
084.01+mosque
084.01+Mecca, Saudi Arabia (to which Muslims turn during prayer)
084.01+(stones)
084.01+Arabic bismillah: in the name of Allah (said as a formulaic prayer before an action in order to bless it)
084.02hurooshoos and levanted off with tubular jurbulance at a bull's
084.02+horseshoes
084.02+Russian khorosho: very well, okay
084.02+Colloquial shoo!: go away! (exclamation used to drive or scare someone or something away)
084.02+levant: to abscond
084.02+Levant: the Middle East
084.02+the railway bridge over Menai Strait was a tubular bridge [083.36] [.03]
084.02+two of Cain's descendants were Jubal and Tubal Cain
084.02+Jubal Early: Confederate commander at both the First and the Second Battle of Bull Run, 1861 and 1862 (Cluster: Battles)
084.02+jubilance
084.02+turbulence
084.03run over the assback bridge, spitting his teeths on rooths, with the
084.03+VI.B.14.094h (b): 'assback roof'
084.03+Latin pons asinorum: a challenge that separates the wise from the foolish, a test of ability (literally 'bridge of asses')
084.03+assback: the back of an ass (similar to 'horseback')
084.03+American Slang ass-backwards: front-to-back, contrary to what is normal (Motif: back/front)
084.03+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...bridge, spitting...} | {Png: ...bridge spitting...}
084.03+(teeth broken in a fight)
084.03+teeth's roots
084.03+French en route: on one's way
084.03+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...rooths, with...} | {Png: ...rooths with...}
084.04seven and four in danegeld and their humoral hurlbat or other
084.04+seven shillings and four pence (i.e. 88 pence) [083.02]
084.04+Danegeld: a medieval annual tax, originally to fund the protection of England from the Danes
084.04+Obsolete hurlbat: an ancient weapon of an uncertain type (perhaps a club or a javelin)
084.04+hurlbat: wooden stick used in the Irish sports of hurling (a.k.a. hurl or hurley)
084.05uncertain weapon of lignum vitae, but so evermore rhumanasant of
084.05+lignum vitae: a type of hard and durable wood from the trees of the South American genus Guaiacum (from Latin lignum vitae: wood of life, so called from its medicinal uses)
084.05+reminiscent
084.05+human
084.06a toboggan poop, picked up to keep some crowplucking ap-
084.06+tobacco pipe
084.06+Slang pluck a crow: settle an unpleasant affair
084.07pointment with some rival rialtos anywheres between Pearidge
084.07+Italian rialto: height, rise
084.07+Rialto: an exchange, a mart (named after Venice's commercial quarter)
084.07+Rialto Bridge, Dublin and Venice
084.07+American realtor: a real-estate agent
084.07+American anywheres: anywhere
084.07+Battle of Pea Ridge, 1862 (American Civil War; Cluster: Battles)
084.08and the Littlehorn while this poor delaney, who they left along
084.08+Battle of Little Big Horn, 1876 (Custer's defeat and death at the hands of Sitting Bull; Cluster: Battles)
084.08+Delaney or Delacey
084.08+left alone
084.09with the confederate fender behind and who albeit ballsbluffed,
084.09+fender: a fire-guard, a low metal frame placed in front of a fireplace to shield the room from falling embers or ash (Motif: fender) [.34]
084.09+(defender or offender; Motif: fender)
084.09+Battle of Ball's Bluff, 1861 (American Civil War) (Cluster: Battles)
084.10bore up wonderfully wunder all of it with a whole number of
084.10+German Wunde: wound
084.10+German Wunder: wonder, miracle
084.10+under
084.10+whole number: integer, a number with no fractions
084.11plumsized contusiums, plus alasalah bruised coccyx, all over him,
084.11+contusions
084.11+Arabic al asalah: the authenticity
084.11+Motif: alphabet sequence: ABC
084.11+coccyx: the bottom tip of the spinal column
084.12reported the occurance in the best way he could, to the flabber-
084.12+occurrence
084.12+VI.B.17.049f (o): 'best way he coould'
084.12+One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories, story 26, p. 147: 'He finished reading the letter the best way he could'
084.12+Colloquial flabbergast: to confound
084.13gaze of the whole lab, giving the Paddybanners the military
084.13+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...lab, giving...} | {Png: ...lab giving...}
084.13+Colloquial paddy: Irishman
084.13+(constables)
084.14salute as for his exilicy's the O'Daffy, in justifiable hope that,
084.14+his excellency (a title of honour for ambassadors, ministers, high officers, etc.)
084.14+exilic: pertaining to an exile
084.14+Eoin O'Duffy: 20th century prominent Irish pro-Treaty nationalist revolutionary, politician and civil servant, as well as the leader of the Irish fascist paramilitary organisation known as the Blueshirts in the 1930s
084.15in nobiloroman review of the hugely sitisfactuary conclusium
084.15+Shakespeare: Julius Caesar V.5.68: 'This was the noblest Roman of them all'
084.15+satisfactory conclusion
084.15+Latin Artificial sitisfactura: a making thirsty
084.15+Macaulay: Lays of Ancient Rome: Horatius at the Bridge (poem): 'Lars Porsena of Clusium' [083.07]
084.16of their negotiations and the jugglemonkysh agripment dein-
084.16+gentlemen's agreement
084.16+Henricus Cornelius Agrippa: 16th century occultist and alchemist
084.16+Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa: 1st century BC Roman general and statesman, who through his children and grandchildren, some of whom were also called Agrippa or Agrippina, was a major ancestor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of Roman emperors
084.16+Latin deinde: next, then, from there
084.17derivative, some lotion or fomentation of poppyheads would be
084.17+VI.B.10.113g (r): 'hot fomantations to ear'
084.17+fomentation: the application of warm substances (e.g. water, oil, wet flannels, moist herbs) to the body for medicinal purposes, such as alleviating pain; the substances so applied
084.17+(opium)
084.18jennerously exhibited to the parts, at the nearest watchhouse in
084.18+Jenner invented vaccination
084.18+generously
084.18+(police station)
084.19Vicar Lane, the white ground of his face all covered with diagon-
084.19+Vicar Street, Dublin
084.19+Vico Road, Dalkey
084.19+Saint Patrick's Cross: a red diagonal (x-shaped, saltire) cross on a white field, representing Saint Patrick or Ireland
084.19+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...diagonally...} | {Png: ...digonally...}
084.20ally redcrossed nonfatal mammalian blood as proofpositive of the
084.20+Red Cross
084.20+non-foetal
084.20+positive proof
084.21seriousness of his character and that he was bleeding in self
084.21+self-defence
084.22defience (stanch it!) from the nostrils, lips, pavilion and palate,
084.22+defiance
084.22+pavilion: the pinna or flap of the outer ear
084.23while some of his hitter's hairs had been pulled off his knut's
084.23+hatter's hares [083.01]
084.24head by Colt though otherwise his allround health appeared to
084.24+colt: a young male horse [.27]
084.24+Colloquial all-round: average, middling
084.25be middling along as it proved most fortunate that not one of
084.25+Psalms 34:19: 'Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken' [.25-.27]
084.26the two hundred and six bones and five hundred and one muscles
084.26+the human body contains approximately 206 bones and 650 voluntary muscles
084.27in his corso was a whit the whorse for her whacking. Herwho?
084.27+Italian in corso: in progress
084.27+Italian corpo: body
084.27+torso
084.27+Archaic phrase not a whit the worse: not worse at all [.25]
084.27+Motif: alliteration (wh)
084.27+Motif: white horse
084.27+hit
084.27+Colloquial whacking: beating, thrashing
084.27+hack: a tired old horse [.24]
084.27+her, who?
084.28     Nowthen, leaving clashing ash, brawn and muscle and brass-
084.28+{{Synopsis: I.4.1A.L: [084.28-085.19]: of the dangers of mistaken identity — how he almost got killed when peacefully strolling in the park}}
084.28+now then (Motif: tenses)
084.28+clashing: conflicting, disagreeing; striking noisily at one another
084.28+Motif: tree/stone (ash, rock) [.29]
084.29made to oust earthernborn and rockcrystal to wreck isinglass but
084.29+VI.B.1.016d (r): 'ousting of metals by metals'
084.29+Haldane: Daedalus or Science and the Future 31: 'the production of aluminium from clay... I do not think that even when this is accomplished aluminium will oust iron and steel as they ousted bronze and flint'
084.29+VI.B.3.057c (r): 'Earthborn (terrigenae)'
084.29+earthen-born
084.29+rock [.28]
084.29+proverb People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones: one should not criticise others for having the same faults as oneself
084.29+isinglass: form of gelatine (usually obtained from the air-bladders of sturgeons)
084.30wurming along gradually for our savings backtowards mother-
084.30+worming
084.30+warming
084.30+savings, bank [.31]
084.30+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'Lisbon', 771b: (of the Aqueducto das Aguas Livres) 'At the Lisbon end of the aqueduct is the Mae d'Agua (i.e. "Mother of Water"), containing a huge stone hall in the midst of which is the reservoir'
084.30+Dutch moddervater: muddy water
084.31waters so many miles from bank and Dublin stone (olympiading
084.31+Steyne: a pillar formerly standing in Dublin, erected by the Vikings near their landing place
084.31+Olympiad: four-year period between Olympic Games
084.32even till the eleventh dynasty to reach that thuddysickend Ham-
084.32+Motif: 1132
084.32+thirty-second
084.32+Shakespeare: Hamlet
084.33laugh) and to the question of boney's unlawfully obtaining a
084.33+Olaf (Humphrey, Olaf, Oliver and Hamlet are all cognates of sorts; Humphrey = Irish Amhlaoibh = Olaf = Old Norse Olafr = Oliver; Irish Amhlaoibh = Latin Amlethus = French Hamlet) [556.23]
084.33+(Napoleon Bonaparte)
084.34pierced paraflamme and claptrap fireguard there crops out the
084.34+Italian parafuoco: fender, fire-guard (Motif: fender) [.09]
084.34+Italian fiamme: flames
084.35still more salient point of the politish leanings and town pursuits
084.35+German politisch: political
084.36of our forebeer, El Don De Dunelli, (may his ship thicked stick
084.36+forebear: ancestor
084.36+beer
084.36+Venetian Italian Dialect el don de dunele: the gift of women, a Don Juan
084.36+Dunn, a bass singer at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, called himself 'Dunelli'
084.36+Dunawly (Olaf's fort) in Clondalkin, County Dublin
084.36+ship in a bottle: a model of a ship inside a glass bottle (an ornamental object that seems impossible, as the ship is much larger than the bottle's mouth)


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