Here are 25 lines from Ulysses, chosen at random from the text available here.

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1. her hat anyhow on her to one side after her run and she did look a

2. stimulation for sympathetic auditors, tacitly appreciative of successful

3. --Is it his speech last night? Mr Bloom asked.

4. Blood of the Lamb.

5. --Did you hear that one, he asked them, about Mulcahy from the Coombe?

6. Ormond? Best value in Dublin. Is that so? Diningroom. Sit tight there.

7. gaze regarded the matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle.

8. itself on the plea he so that the other could drink in the beauty for

9. oil and vinegar) and pyramidically prismatic central chandelier lustre,

10. would suffer nought to grow in all the land but green grass for himself

11. Sit around under sunshades. Over after over. Out. They can't play it

12. galloping tearing tandy, O! Bow to the inevitable. Grin and bear it. I

13. ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius

14. being a deluder of others he has become at last his own dupe as he is,

15. all descriptions.

16. goose, my gander O.

17. Alas the voice rose, sighing, changed: loud, full, shining, proud.

18. Stephen, who was trying his dead best to yawn if he could, suffering

19. The keeper of the shelter in the middle of this _tête-â-tête_ put a

20. BELLO: _(Guffaws)_ Christ Almighty it's too tickling, this! You were

21. A skiff, a crumpled throwaway, Elijah is coming, rode lightly down the

22. the arc which it subtends.

23. wight hath done a deed of blood for I will on nowise suffer it even so

24. which Bloom appreciated at the very first note he got out, could easily,

25. ingots, silvery fishes, crans of herrings, drafts of eels, codlings,