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  • We Memphians call our intrepid little corner of Tennessee "Roundtown," and it isn't because we're officially the most obese city in the nation.

    Jim Derych: Freshman Mistakes 2008

  • F to P is the route Skin-the-Goat drove the car for an alibi, Inchicore, Roundtown, Windy Arbour, Palmerston Park,

    Ulysses 2003

  • A shaven space of lawn one soft May evening, the wellremembered grove of lilacs at Roundtown, purple and white, fragrant slender spectators of the game but with much real interest in the pellets as they run slowly forward over the sward or collide and stop, one by its fellow, with a brief alert shock.

    Ulysses 2003

  • I danced with her, wait, fifteen seventeen golden years ago, at Mat Dillon's in Roundtown.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Villa, Kimmage road, Roundtown, in 1887, in the company of Stephen's mother, Stephen being then of the age of 5 and reluctant to give his hand in salutation.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Roundtown, purple and white, fragrant slender spectators of the game but with much real interest in the pellets as they run slowly forward over the sward or collide and stop, one by its fellow, with a brief alert shock.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Tweedy and his daughter Miss Marion Tweedy, together and separately on the lounge in Matthew Dillon's house in Roundtown.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Darby Daly of Roundtown, one pound; Sam Finnigan of Roundtown, one pound; James Casey of

    Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life Samuel Lover 1832

  • Mark my words -- Roundtown will prosper from this day out -- Roundtown will be a rising place.

    Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life Samuel Lover 1832

  • Roundtown -- Roundtown will be renowned in future ages for the support of the Church.

    Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life Samuel Lover 1832

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