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  • He did write a poem, “The Schooldesk,” about a rainy day in a cottage near Lough Arrow in County Sligo where Tess had visited annually since 1968.11 And he relished a tour of the James Joyce Museum in an old Martello Tower overlooking Dublin Bay, the setting for the opening scene of Ulysses.

    Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

  • To surprise the Martello Tower and take the feeble garrison thereunder, was the work of Tom Coxswain and a few of his blue-jackets.

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • To surprise the Martello Tower and take the feeble garrison thereunder, was the work of Tom Coxswain and a few of his blue-jackets.

    Burlesques 2006

  • Town Hall and the Martello Tower, and the Esplanade, and Pitt Street and the High Street, until his companion suddenly shot out a long eager arm and caught him by the wrist.

    The Captain of the Polestar Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • To surprise the Martello Tower and take the feeble garrison thereunder, was the work of Tom Coxswain and a few of his blue-jackets.

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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