Seek out the tomes of Dickens, Austen, and Hawthorne. Deliberately find books that are hard to read such as William Faulkner's the Sound and the Fury and James Joyce's Ulysses.
But I am like Ulysses, safely lashed to my ship’s mast, yearning for the sirens’ song.
On March fourth, eighteen sixty-nine, Ulysses Grant traveled to Washington for his inauguration as the eighteenth President of the United States.
Ulysses Grant and his Republican successors put repayment of the Civil War debt at the top of their priorities list.
Until the promotion of Ulysses S. Grant, the North’s victory in the civil war was held back by a series of inept generals—to the exasperation of Lincoln, who liked to read up on military strategy.
Ulysses had it right: in order to endure listening to the seductive-but-deadly sirens, not only did he have himself bound to the mast, but he ordered his crew to ignore his demands to set him free.
Only after this ordeal did he begin his long and fruitful association with Ulysses Grant.
For a twenty, you should look for the picture of Andrew Jackson, and on a fifty-dollar bill, you'll see a picture of Ulysses Grant.
Plett's model, though not yet perfect, provides a useful reference frame for a brief survey of the phonological figures in Ulysses.
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