Saturday 1 February 2020

Nausicaa [13]

U13.8: “star of the sea”

Star of the Sea

High Altar Star of the Sea

“the quiet church whence there streamed forth at times upon the stillness the voice of prayer to her who is in her pure radiance a beacon ever to the stormtossed heart of man, Mary, star of the sea.”

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U13.84: “iron jelloids”




“Her figure was slight and graceful, inclining even to fragility but those iron jelloids she had been taking of late had done her a world of good much better than the Widow Welch's female pills and she was much better of those discharges she used to get and that tired feeling.”

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U13.233: “Garryowen”



“and they would have a beautifully appointed drawingroom with pictures and engravings and the photograph of grandpapa Giltrap's lovely dog Garryowen that almost talked it was so human”

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U.13.342: “Walker's pronouncing dictionary”





“... because she had found out in Walker's pronouncing dictionary that belonged to grandpa Giltrap about the halcyon days what they meant.”

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U13.448: “Canon O'Hanlon”


“Gerty could picture the whole scene in the church, the stained glass windows lighted up, the candles, the flowers and the blue banners of the blessed Virgin's sodality and Father Conroy was helping Canon O'Hanlon at the altar, carrying things in and out with his eyes cast down.”

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U13.464: the forty hours' adoration


“He was so kind and holy and often and often she thought and thought could she work a ruched teacosy with embroidered floral design for him as a present or a clock but they had a clock she noticed on the mantelpiece white and gold with a canarybird that came out of a little house to tell the time the day she went there about the flowers for the forty hours' adoration because it was hard to know what sort of a present to give or perhaps an album of illuminated views of Dublin or some place.”
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U13.633: The Lamplighter




“and soon the lamplighter would be going his rounds past the presbyterian church grounds and along by shady Tritonville avenue where the couples walked and lighting the lamp near her window where Reggy Wylie used to turn his freewheel like she read in that book The Lamplighter by Miss Cummins, author of Mabel Vaughan and other tales.”

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U13.646: “Louis J Walsh”



“for she felt that she too could write poetry if she could only express herself like that poem that appealed to her so deeply that she had copied out the the newspaper she found one evening round the potherbs. Art thou real, my ideal? it was called by Louis J Walsh, Magherafelt, and after there was something about twilight, wilt thou ever?

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U13.1173: “Leahy's terrace”


“From house to house, giving his everwelcome double knock, went the nine o'clock postman, the glowworm's lamp at his belt gleaming here and there through the laurel hedges. And among the five young trees a hoisted lintstock lit the lamp at Leahy's terrace.”


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