filibegs

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We are a generous people but we must also be just I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy Mr Deasy stared sternly for some moments over the mantelpiece at the shapely bulk of a man in tartan filibegs: Albert Edward, prince of Wales You think me an old fogey and an old tory, his thoughtful voice said.

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  • We are a generous people but we must also be just I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy Mr Deasy stared sternly for some moments over the mantelpiece at the shapely bulk of a man in tartan filibegs: Albert Edward, prince of Wales You think me an old fogey and an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. —  Ulysses
  • Mr Deasy stared sternly for some moments over the mantelpiece at the shapely bulk of a man in tartan filibegs: Albert Edward, prince of —  Ulysses
  • Along an infinite invisible tightrope taut from zenith to nadir the End of the World, a twoheaded octopus in gillie's kilts, busby and tartan filibegs, whirls through the murk, head over heels, in the form of the —  Ulysses
 

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