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dilly
1. Ha but tis just a prelude to the main storm, now that is going to be a real dilly
2. ‘No, Dilly, this isn’t Sarah’s phone
3. Mind you, Dilly throwing up rather took his mind off my love life
4. Dilly is not in the office – her boyfriend rings in and tells us that she has a tummy bug and hasn’t managed to keep anything down yet
5. We share the building with a couple of small businesses who rent their offices – they are, to all intents and purposes, totally separate entities, Dilly being the only common point of contact
6. ‘I’m Sarah … I’m covering for Dilly
7. wonder where Dilly picked it up
8. ‘No, with the tummy bug Dilly had
9. He looks up as Dilly comes into the office looking a little flustered
10. ‘It’s on my desk as usual, Dilly
11. Dilly had several messages for me which she needed to explain, so Dave had gone on ahead … Dilly’s explanations tend to be rather convoluted and it took time for me to untangle the information
12. He stared at me for a moment before dilly dawdling about my room, playing with the robes and Indian cloth I had hung sporadically around, dangling from the ceiling, tied to my bed posts, looking at them as if he didn’t approve
13. It’s gonna be a dilly to watch! These
14. His plan was a dilly
15. Dilly Dedalus, loitering by the curbstone, heard the beats of the bell, the cries of the auctioneer within
16. Dilly shrugged her shoulders
17. —You got some, Dilly said, looking in his eyes
18. —I know you did, Dilly answered
19. —I suppose you got five, Dilly said
20. Dilly followed quickly and pulled his coat
21. —You got more than that, father, Dilly said
22. —Can't you look for some money somewhere? Dilly said
23. —I'm sure you have another shilling, Dilly said
24. In Fownes's street Dilly Dedalus, straining her sight upward from Chardenal's first French primer, saw sunshades spanned and wheelspokes spinning in the glare
25. There was no response forthcoming to the suggestion however, such as it was, Stephen's mind's eye being too busily engaged in repicturing his family hearth the last time he saw it with his sister Dilly sitting by the ingle, her hair hanging down, waiting for some weak Trinidad shell cocoa that was in the sootcoated kettle to be done so that she and he could drink it with the oatmealwater for milk after the