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GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT
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There were equally excellent opportunities for vacationists in the
home island, delightful sylvan spots for rejuvenation, offering a pleth­
ora of attractions as well as a bracing tonic for the system in and
around Dublin and its picturesque environs, even, Poulaphouca, to
which there was a steam tram, but also farther away from the madding
crowd, in Wicklow, rightly termed the garden of Ireland, an ideal
neighbourhood for elderly wheel men, so long as it didn't come down,
and in the wilds of Donegal, where if report spoke true, the coup d'oeil
was exceedingly grand, though the lastnamed locality was not easily
getable so that the influx of visitors was not as yet all that it might be
considering the signal benefits to be derived from it, while Howth with
its historic associations and otherwise, Silken Thomas, Grace O'Malley,
George IV, rhododendrons several hundred feet above sealevel was a
favourite haunt with all sorts and conditions of men, especially in the
spring when young men's fancy, though it had its own toll of deaths
by falling off the cliffs by design or accidentally, usually, by the way,
on their left leg, it being only about three quarters of an hour's run
from the pillar. [202 words]
-jAMEs jovcE, Ulysses
Now and then during the next six months he returned to town,
but he did not again even see or pass the restaurant. ... Perhaps he
did not need to. More often than that he knew perhaps thinking would
have suddenly flowed into a picture, shaping, shaped: the long, barren,
somehow equivocal counter with the still, coldfaced, violenthaired
woman at one end as though guarding it, and at the other men with