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Page 60 “The old man would dip his hand and then sprinkle the water briskly about Stephen’s clothes and on the floor of the church”
Page 62 (Page 62) “Weary stragglers with the stale odours of the foreshore in their nostrils and the rank oils of the seawrack upon their hands and in their hair”
Page 65 “He passed unchallenged among the docks and along the quays wondering at the multitude of corks that lay bobbing on the surface of the water in a thick yellow scum, at the crowds of quay porters and the rumbling carts and the ill-dressed bearded policemen”
Page 65 “A vague dissatisfaction grew up within him as he looked on the quays and on the river and on the lowering skies”
Page 83 “Suddenly the memory of their touch traversed his brain and body like an invisible wave”
Page 86 “His father was standing before the dressing-table, examining his hair and face and moustache with great care, craning his neck across the water jug and drawing it back sideways to see the better”
Page 91 "A maid in a white cap and apron was watering a box of plants on a sill which shone like a slab of limestone in the warm glare"
Page 98 “The three figures standing at the edge of the muddy path had pinched cheeks and watery eyes”
Page 99 “From without as from within the waters had flowed over his barriers: their tides began once more to jostle fiercely above the crumbled mole”
Page 109 “Is baptism with a mineral water valid”
Page 116 “With one foot on the sea and one foot on the land he blew from the arch-angelical trumpet the brazen death of time”
Page 119 “In the wide land under a tender lucid evening sky, a cloud drifting westward amid a pale green sea of heaven, they stood together, children that had erred”
Page 120 “Rain was falling on the chapel, on the garden, on the college. It would rain forever, noiselessly. The water would rise inch by inch”
Page 124 “Forty days and forty nights the rain would fall till the waters covered the face of the earth”
Page 126 “By casting him into the depths of the sea in a sack in which were placed a cock, a monkey, and a serpent”
Page 128 “He was seized and bound…and hanged upon a gibbet and His side was pierced with a lance and from the wounded body of our Lord water and blood issued continually”
Page 129 “Mr. Tate and Vincent Heron stood at the window, talking, jesting, gazing out at the bleak rain, moving their heads”
Page 134  “As the waters of baptism cleanse the soul with the body, so do the fires of punishment torture the spirit with the flesh”
Page 135 “And now, though you were to flood all hell with your tears if you could still weep, all that sea of repentance would not gain for you that a single tear of true repentance shed during your mortal life would have gained for you”
Page 136 "Imagine such an enormous mass of countless particles of sand multiplied as often as there are leaves in the forest, drops of water in the mighty ocean"
Page 143 “The rain had drawn off”
Page 150 “The old and weary voice fell like sweet rain upon his quaking parching heart”

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Water

  • 2. Page 60 “The old man would dip his hand and then sprinkle the water briskly about Stephen’s clothes and on the floor of the church”
  • 3. Page 62 (Page 62) “Weary stragglers with the stale odours of the foreshore in their nostrils and the rank oils of the seawrack upon their hands and in their hair”
  • 4. Page 65 “He passed unchallenged among the docks and along the quays wondering at the multitude of corks that lay bobbing on the surface of the water in a thick yellow scum, at the crowds of quay porters and the rumbling carts and the ill-dressed bearded policemen”
  • 5. Page 65 “A vague dissatisfaction grew up within him as he looked on the quays and on the river and on the lowering skies”
  • 6. Page 83 “Suddenly the memory of their touch traversed his brain and body like an invisible wave”
  • 7. Page 86 “His father was standing before the dressing-table, examining his hair and face and moustache with great care, craning his neck across the water jug and drawing it back sideways to see the better”
  • 8. Page 91 "A maid in a white cap and apron was watering a box of plants on a sill which shone like a slab of limestone in the warm glare"
  • 9. Page 98 “The three figures standing at the edge of the muddy path had pinched cheeks and watery eyes”
  • 10. Page 99 “From without as from within the waters had flowed over his barriers: their tides began once more to jostle fiercely above the crumbled mole”
  • 11. Page 109 “Is baptism with a mineral water valid”
  • 12. Page 116 “With one foot on the sea and one foot on the land he blew from the arch-angelical trumpet the brazen death of time”
  • 13. Page 119 “In the wide land under a tender lucid evening sky, a cloud drifting westward amid a pale green sea of heaven, they stood together, children that had erred”
  • 14. Page 120 “Rain was falling on the chapel, on the garden, on the college. It would rain forever, noiselessly. The water would rise inch by inch”
  • 15. Page 124 “Forty days and forty nights the rain would fall till the waters covered the face of the earth”
  • 16. Page 126 “By casting him into the depths of the sea in a sack in which were placed a cock, a monkey, and a serpent”
  • 17. Page 128 “He was seized and bound…and hanged upon a gibbet and His side was pierced with a lance and from the wounded body of our Lord water and blood issued continually”
  • 18. Page 129 “Mr. Tate and Vincent Heron stood at the window, talking, jesting, gazing out at the bleak rain, moving their heads”
  • 19. Page 134 “As the waters of baptism cleanse the soul with the body, so do the fires of punishment torture the spirit with the flesh”
  • 20. Page 135 “And now, though you were to flood all hell with your tears if you could still weep, all that sea of repentance would not gain for you that a single tear of true repentance shed during your mortal life would have gained for you”
  • 21. Page 136 "Imagine such an enormous mass of countless particles of sand multiplied as often as there are leaves in the forest, drops of water in the mighty ocean"
  • 22. Page 143 “The rain had drawn off”
  • 23. Page 150 “The old and weary voice fell like sweet rain upon his quaking parching heart”