Ulysses vocabulary

Did I tell you my mother was seriously saying novenas to end my relationship when I was dating Ibrahim?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Americanah, p.477 (2013)

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let you, Stephen, make a novena to your holy patron saint, the first martyr, who is very powerful with God, that God may enlighten your mind.

James Joyce. The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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you will find many prejudices to combat, Monsieur Bovary, much obstinacy of routine, with which all the efforts of your science will daily come into collision; for people still have recourse to novenas, to relics, to the priest, rather than come straight to the doctor or the chemist.

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary