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089.01place. A stoker temptated by evesdripping aginst the driver who
–089.01+stoker: one who tends and fuels a furnace (e.g. on a train or ship, or in a brewery)
–089.01+tempted by Eve (i.e. Adam)
–089.01+(women urinating)
–089.01+in Islam, evil jinn made of fire are supposed to be eavesdroppers in heaven
–089.01+against
–089.01+in Islam, two angels, a driver and a witness, accompany each soul before God on the Day of Judgement (Koran 50:21)
089.02was a witness as well? Sacred avatar, how the devil did they
–089.02+Colloquial phrase how the devil: how (intensified)
089.03guess it! Two dreamyums in one dromium? Yes and no error.
–089.03+(*V* and *C* in *Y*)
–089.03+dreamy 'uns
–089.03+Norwegian drøm: dream
–089.03+Greek dromios: twins
–089.03+Dromios: twins in William Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors
–089.03+yes-or-no question: a question answerable by yes or no (like the preceding question; Motif: yes/no)
–089.03+Colloquial phrase and no error: undoubtedly, for certain
089.04And both as like as a duel of lentils? Peacisely. So he was pelted
–089.04+phrase as like as two peas in a pod
–089.04+Genesis 25:22: (of Jacob and Esau in their mother's womb) 'And the children struggled together within her' (Motif: Jacob/Esau) [.13] [.15]
–089.04+Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a pottage of lentils (Genesis 25:29-34; Motif: Jacob/Esau) [.13] [.15]
–089.04+peas
–089.04+precisely
089.05out of the coram populo, was he? Be the powers that be he was.
–089.05+The Coram: a common name for The Foundling Hospital in London (a children's home founded by Thomas Coram in 1739)
–089.05+Latin coram populo: in the presence of the people
–089.05+by
–089.05+phrase the powers that be
089.06The prince in principel should not expose his person? Mac-
–089.06+Niccolo Machiavelli: Il Principe (The Prince)
–089.06+in principle
–089.06+Italian ma che vuole!: what does he want!
089.07chevuole! Rooskayman kamerad? Sooner Gallwegian he would
–089.07+Rooskay: village, County Roscommon
–089.07+County Roscommon
–089.07+Russian russkii: Russian
–089.07+German Kamerad: comrade
–089.07+phrase no sooner said than done: accomplished immediately
–089.07+Galwegian: inhabitant of Galloway, Scotland
089.08say. Not unintoxicated, fair witness? Drunk as a fishup. Askt to
–089.08+phrase drunk as a fish
–089.08+phrase drunk as a bishop
–089.08+asked
089.09whether she minded whither he smuked? Not if he barkst into
–089.09+Archaic whither: to where
–089.09+whether
–089.09+smoked
–089.09+puked
–089.09+barked
–089.09+Obsolete brake: to vomit
–089.09+burst into flames
089.10phlegms. Anent his ajaciulations to his Crosscann Lorne, cossa?
–089.10+Ajaccio: capital of Corsica
–089.10+ejaculations
–089.10+song Cruiskeen Lawn
–089.10+Anglo-Irish cruiskeen lawn: full little jug (from Irish crúiscín lán)
–089.10+Corsican
–089.10+Joyce's uncle supposedly resembled the Marquess of Lorne
–089.10+Italian Dialect cossa?: what?
089.11It was corso in cursu on coarser again. The gracious miss was
–089.11+song Father O'Flynn: 'sláinte and sláinte and sláinte again'
–089.11+Italian corsi e ricorsi: flows and reflows, streams and recurrences (a phrase popularly associated with Vico in the context of the recurrence of historical cycles) [481.02]
–089.11+Latin in cursu: in progress
–089.11+VI.B.6.071a ( ): 'the gracious Miss is no doubt'
–089.11+Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 241 (sec. 239): 'the artificialities of the modes of address in different nations... in Swedish... 'The gracious Miss is probably aware''
089.12we not doubt sensible how yellowatty on the forx was altered?
–089.12+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song Oh! Doubt Me Not [air: Yellow Wat and the Fox] [.13]
–089.12+yellow water (urine)
–089.12+Battle of Yellow Ford, 1598 (in Ulster)
–089.12+VI.B.6.072j (b): 'alter (geld)'
–089.12+Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 248 (sec. 247): 'to alter is said in the Southern States instead of to geld'
089.13That she esually was, O'Dowd me not! As to his religion, if
–089.13+Esau (Motif: Jacob/Esau) [.15] [.04]
–089.13+easily
–089.13+usually
–089.13+Boucicault: other plays: Daddy O'Dowd
–089.13+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song Oh! Doubt Me Not [.12]
089.14any? It was the see-you-Sunday sort. Exactly what he meant by
–089.14+VI.B.16.135d (b): 'see you Sunday'
–089.14+Key: John McCormack, His Own Life Story 424: '"So-long," he replied, "see you Thursday"'
–089.14+s..-y..-sun [090.01]
089.15a pederast prig? Bejacob's, just a gent who prayed his lent. And
–089.15+pedigree pig (Cluster: Pigs) [086.14]
–089.15+Slang prig: petty thief
–089.15+Anglo-Irish Slang be Jaysus!
–089.15+Jacob [.13] [.04]
–089.15+Anglo-Irish phrase the gentleman who pays the rent: pig (Cluster: Pigs) [086.27]
–089.15+prayed on Lent
089.16if middleclassed portavorous was a usual beast? Bynight as useful
–089.16+(if this)
–089.16+(door-eating) [086.26]
–089.16+useful
–089.16+phrase useful as damn it!
089.17as a vomit to a shorn man. If he had rognarised dtheir gcourts
–089.17+VI.B.16.140h (b): 'a vomit to a poor man 3d'
–089.17+Sterne: A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, II.175: 'God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb'
–089.17+Ragnarok: in Norse mythology, a future cataclysmic series of events, including a great battle in which many gods will die (e.g. Odin, Thor, Loki), after which the world will begin anew (literally 'Fate of the Gods' or 'Twilight of the Gods' in Old Norse)
–089.17+recognised
–089.17+eclipsis: a sound-change in the initial letters of Irish words when inflected, with the letters t, c, d being eclipsed by d, g, n, respectively (both the eclipsing and the eclipsed consonants, in that order, are retained in spelling, so that dt, gc, nd are pronounced d, g, n, respectively) [.17-.18]
–089.17+court martials
089.18marsheyls? Dthat nday in ndays he had. Lindendelly, coke or
–089.18+Irish riddle: 'Londonderry, Cork and Kerry, Spell me that without an R'; answer: 'THAT' [180.13]
–089.18+Motif: 4 provinces [.18-.19]
–089.18+Londonderry (Ulster)
–089.18+Cork (Munster)
089.19skilllies spell me gart without a gate? Harlyadrope. The grazing
–089.19+Skerries (Leinster)
–089.19+Gort (Connacht)
–089.19+Irish gort: the letter G
–089.19+yard
–089.19+hardly a drop
–089.19+Motif: heliotrope
089.20rights (Mrs Magistra Martinetta) expired with the expiry of the
–089.20+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Mrs Magistra...} | {Png: ...Mrs. Magistra...}
–089.20+Latin magistra: mistress
–089.20+French Maître Martinet: Master Martinet, a name for the devil, as used in witchcraft (Obsolete martinet: the demon responsible for summoning witches to their assemblies)
–089.20+martinet: a rigid disciplinarian
089.21goat's sire, if they were not mistaken? That he exactly could not
–089.21+great sire
–089.21+HEC (Motif: HCE)
089.22tell the worshipfuls but his mother-in-waders had the recipis for
–089.22+mother-in-law
–089.22+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'
–089.22+waders: waterproof boots reaching above the knee (used by anglers)
–089.22+recipe
–089.22+receipt
089.23the price of the coffin and that he was there to tell them that
–089.23+
089.24herself was the velocipede that could tell them kitcat. A maun-
–089.24+velocipede: early form of bicycle or tricycle
–089.24+kit-cat: a less-than-half-length portrait (but with hands included)
–089.24+maundering: rambling in speech, muttering incoherently (Obsolete Slang begging)
–089.24+Mandarin Chinese (Chinese) [.25]
089.25darin tongue in a pounderin jowl? Father ourder about the
–089.25+phrase Tuscan tongue in a Roman mouth (definition of good Italian)
–089.25+Ezra Pound translated classical Chinese poetry into English [.24]
–089.25+jowl: jaw; cheek
–089.25+prayer Our Father: Lord's Prayer
–089.25+further orders
–089.25+French ourdir: to hatch (a plot)
089.26mathers of prenanciation. Distributary endings? And we recom-
–089.26+matters of pronunciation
–089.26+mother
–089.26+pre- (hence, pronunciation of initial letters) [.17]
–089.26+distributive: in grammar, a case denoting a separation of a collection (similar to each, per, every in English; several languages use endings to indicate such a case (as well as other cases), e.g. Hungarian or Basque)
–089.26+recommence
089.27mends. Quare hircum? No answer. Unde gentium fe . . . ? No ah.
–089.27+[023.19-.21] [202.19-.21]
–089.27+Latin quare hircum: why the goat?
–089.27+Latin unde gentium festines: where are you hurrying from?
–089.27+Noah
–089.27+no answer
089.28Are you not danzzling on the age of a vulcano? Siar, I am deed.
–089.28+VI.B.46.052h (g): 'dance on volcano'
–089.28+Trogan: Les Mots Historiques du Pays de France 108: 'M. DE SALVANDY... Nous dansons sur un volcan' (French 'MR. DE SALVANDY... We are dancing on a volcano'; a French politician, at a grand party, shortly before the July Revolution of 1830)
–089.28+dangling on the edge
–089.28+dazzling
–089.28+Vulcan: Roman god of fire and volcanoes
–089.28+VI.B.46.052l (g): 'No, sire, I'm dead'
–089.28+Trogan: Les Mots Historiques du Pays de France 108: 'LE COLONEL COMBES... Non, Monseigneur, je suis mort' (French 'THE COLONEL COMBES... No, Sire, I am dead'; at the Siege of Constantine, Algeria, replying to Prince Louis, who was enquiring whether he was wounded)
–089.28+Irish siar: westwards, backwards (phrase gone west: dead)
–089.28+indeed
089.29And how olld of him? He was intendant to study pulu. Which
–089.29+old
–089.29+odd
–089.29+intending
–089.29+Pular: a language spoken by the Fulani people in Guinea, Senegal, Gambia, etc. (also known as Pul, Peul, Fulfulde, Fula, etc.)
–089.29+Pali: Prakrit language of the Buddhist scriptures
089.30was meant in a shirt of two shifts macoghamade or up Finn,
–089.30+Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 47: (lists types of Ogham ciphers) 'Shirt-of-two-strokes Ogham'
–089.30+Motif: 2&3
–089.30+shift: a woman's body undergarment, a chemise
–089.30+Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 40: (lists types of Ogham ciphers) 'Mac-ogam ('Son Ogham')'
–089.30+Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 49: (lists types of Ogham ciphers) 'Finn's three-shanked Ogham'
–089.30+Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 48: (lists types of Ogham ciphers) 'Finn's ladder' (has three forms)
089.31threehatted ladder? That a head in thighs under a bush at the
–089.31+three-headed
–089.31+lad
–089.31+leader
–089.31+Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 47: (lists types of Ogham ciphers) 'Head in a bush'
–089.31+Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 47: (lists types of Ogham ciphers) 'Head under a bush'
–089.31+Slang bush: pubic hair (especially a woman's)
089.32sunface would bait a serpent to a millrace through the heather.
–089.32+Ogma Sun-face: an Irish god and a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, who is said to have invented Ogham [090.01-.02]
–089.32+surface
–089.32+beat
–089.32+(penis)
–089.32+Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 47: (lists types of Ogham ciphers) 'Serpent through the heather'
–089.32+Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 48: (lists types of Ogham ciphers) 'Millrace Ogham'
089.33Arm bird colour defdum ethnic fort perharps? Sure and glomsk
–089.33+Motif: alphabet sequence: ABCDEF
–089.33+Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 43: (lists types of Ogham ciphers) 'Arm Ogam ('Weapon Ogham')'
–089.33+Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 42: (lists types of Ogham ciphers) 'Bird Ogham'
–089.33+Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 42: (lists types of Ogham ciphers) 'Colour Ogham'
–089.33+deaf and dumb (Ogham is a sign and gesture language, thus similar to deaf and dumb sign language)
–089.33+Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 48: (lists types of Ogham ciphers) 'Ogam dīdruim ('Ridgeless Ogham')'
–089.33+Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 54: (lists types of Ogham ciphers) 'Ogam dedenach ('Finals Ogham')'
–089.33+German nicht fort: not gone
–089.33+Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 42: (lists types of Ogham ciphers) 'Fortress Ogham'
–089.33+perhaps
–089.33+Shelta glonsk: man
–089.33+GH(I)
089.34handy jotalpheson as well. Hokey jasons, then, in a pigeegeeses?
–089.34+(Ogham is spoken with the hands)
–089.34+Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 90: (in Bog Latin) 'for certain letters in the word, the name of the letter in the Irish or Ogham alphabet is substituted... as though a Greek, wishing for some reason to refer cryptically to a person called Iasōn, should call him 'Iōt'alphasōn''
–089.34+person
–089.34+Holy Jesus
–089.34+phrase a pig in a poke: a thing bought without first being examined (Cluster: Pigs)
–089.34+epexegesis: the addition of words to clarify the meaning intended in a preceding sentence
–089.34+Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland 42: (lists types of Ogham ciphers) 'Muc-ogam ('Pig Ogham')' (Cluster: Pigs)
–089.34+geese
089.35On a pontiff's order as ture as there's an ital on atac. As a gololy
–089.35+(Laudabiliter) [090.03]
–089.35+phrase as sure as there's a tail on a cat
–089.35+German Tür: door
–089.35+as true, as sure
–089.35+italic
–089.35+Irish athach: peasant; churl; stammerer; giant
–089.35+hymn Glory Be: (begins) 'Glory be to the Father' (imitating Chinese Pidgin pronunciation)
089.36bit to joss? Leally and tululy. But, why this hankowchaff and
–089.36+Chinese Pidgin joss: God
–089.36+phrase really and truly: absolutely, honestly (imitating Chinese Pidgin pronunciation)
–089.36+Obsolete leally: really, truly
–089.36+Hankou: city in China (a revolutionary centre in 1911; also spelled Hankow)
–089.36+handkerchief (Motif: kerchief or handkerchief)


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