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[Page 41] "Uppercross" the old-fashioned parlour is spoken of "with a small carpet and shining floor, to which the present daughters of the house were giving the proper air of confusion by a grand piano and a harp."
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In 1885 with Percy Apjohn in the evenings, reclined against the wall between Gibraltar villa and Bloomfield house in Crumlin, barony of Uppercross.
Ulysses 2003
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_Persuasion_ will remember the scene in the fields near Uppercross where
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
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Tallaght is situated in the barony of Uppercross, 5 miles south of Dublin.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement] 1840-1916 1913
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In 1885 with Percy Apjohn in the evenings, reclined against the wall between Gibraltar villa and Bloomfield house in Crumlin, barony of Uppercross.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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She had felt the din, made by a merry group of holiday children at Uppercross, to be intolerable; a din, however, characterised by Mrs. Musgrove, as a "little quiet cheerfulness which was doing her much good."
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In our little parlour, with its projecting bay window, we fancied the Uppercross party assembled
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He had intended, on first arriving, to proceed very soon into Shropshire, and visit the brother settled in that country, but the attractions of Uppercross induced him to put this off.
Persuasion 1892
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Anne a greater attraction to Uppercross than herself, must be left to be guessed.
Persuasion 1892
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He had been absent only two Sundays, and when they parted, had left her interested, even to the height of his wishes, in his prospect of soon quitting his present curacy, and obtaining that of Uppercross instead.
Persuasion 1892
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