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Example sentences for: ulysses
How can you use “ulysses” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
And, where the reference is made in the first paragraph to “the twanging release of Ulysses' silver bow,” that the bowman is not Ulysses but Apollo, shooting into the Greek camp.
"What Ulysses did for Ireland it also did for literature in English, and Texaco , also a masterpiece, does the same for another island, Martinique, and for (here one swallows) literature in French."
Oliver St. John Gogarty (Fleet Street), named for the man-of-letters who was the model for a character in Ulysses, has good traditional and other music and a dining room.
It would be impossible to compile a definitive glossary for this group, but a few examples follow: the heads (naval colloquialism, dating from the late nineteenth century, said to be from the location of the latrines on a ship); the longs (pet-name for latrines at Brasenose College, Oxford, from c. 1870, so-called because they were built from funds donated by a certain Lady Long); and greenhouses (Ulysses , Book VIII), James Joyce's personal slang for the public toilets after the color of their paint.
3) It celebrates impenetrable highbrow books, such as Joyce's Ulysses , which critics admit to never having read.
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