While the objects around me -- while the carvings of the ceilings , the sombre tapestries of the walls , the ebon blackness of the floors , and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled rattle as I strode stride , were but matters to which , or to such as which , I had been accustomed from my infancy -- while I hesitated hesitate not to acknowledge how familiar was all this -- I still wondered wonder to find how unfamiliar were the fancies which ordinary images were stirring stir up .

He mounted mount to the parapet again and gazed gaze out over Dublin bay , his fair oakpale hair stirring stir slightly .

Pretty soon I heard hear a twig snap snap down in the dark amongst the trees -- something was a stirring stir .