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  • In the next, Buck Mulligan's "dressinggown" is broken into two words, and five lines below a capitalized "Jesuit" replaces Joyce's less reverential "jesuit."

    Making the Wrong Joyce Kidd, John 1997

  • A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air.

    Bloomsday 2010: 'Ulysses' Celebrated Around The World (PHOTOS, POLL) 2010

  • A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air.

    "Hence we shave our beards that we may seem purified by innocence and humility..." Ann Althouse 2008

  • A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air.

    Miguel Cohen’s “Ulysses,” Part 1 : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2004

  • There, on the threshold of her bedroom door, stood Miss Rachel, almost as white in the face as the white dressinggown that clothed her.

    The Moonstone 2003

  • A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Sean tickled Duffs lips with the tassel of his dressinggown cord, Duff's nose twitched and his snores gargled into silence.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • When he came out again (which was not for a long time) he was in his dressinggown and made straight for the bathroom.

    The Magician's Nephew Lewis, C. S. 1955

  • A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • The intricate ordering of Leila's fair hair and the flying folds of her dressinggown showed that she had interrupted her dressing to hasten to her mother; but once in the room she paused a moment, smiling uncertainly, as though she had forgotten the object of her haste.

    Autres Temps... 1916 Edith Wharton 1899

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