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  • BLOOM: I was just going back for that lotion whitewax, orangeflower water.

    Ulysses 2003

  • VIRAG: _ (Agueshaken, profuse yellow spawn foaming over his bony epileptic lips) _ She sold lovephiltres, whitewax, orangeflower.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • BLOOM: I was just going back for that lotion whitewax, orangeflower water.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Silks and furs and silverwork, medicines, opium and whitewax, are the chief articles of export, and as, fortunately for us, Western China can grow but little cotton, the most important imports are Manchester goods.

    AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

  • Silks and furs and silverwork, medicines, opium and whitewax, are the chief articles of export, and as, fortunately for us, Western China can grow but little cotton, the most important imports are Manchester goods.

    An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma George Ernest Morrison 1891

  • EPILEPTIC LIPS) She sold lovephiltres, whitewax, orangeflower.

    Ulysses 2003

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