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1  The sky was an inverted cup of blue metal.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
2  Gold hair, blue eyes, and rose-red lips--they all were there.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
3  His hands were clenched, and the pupils of his eyes were like disks of blue fire.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
4  He was carried at once into the blue drawing-room and laid upon one of the sofas.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17
5  The gas-lamps flickered and became blue, and the leafless trees shook their black iron branches to and fro.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
6  Between two of the windows stood a large Florentine cabinet, made out of ebony and inlaid with ivory and blue lapis.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
7  Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
8  On a heap of sacking in the far corner was lying the dead body of a man dressed in a coarse shirt and a pair of blue trousers.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
9  A grasshopper began to chirrup by the wall, and like a blue thread a long thin dragon-fly floated past on its brown gauze wings.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
10  There was a rustle of chirruping sparrows in the green lacquer leaves of the ivy, and the blue cloud-shadows chased themselves across the grass like swallows.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
11  "My dear Harry, we either lunch or sup together every day, and I have been to the opera with you several times," said Dorian, opening his blue eyes in wonder.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  The sodden eyes had kept something of the loveliness of their blue, the noble curves had not yet completely passed away from chiselled nostrils and from plastic throat.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
13  Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy, opium-tainted cigarette.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  Some large blue china jars and parrot-tulips were ranged on the mantelshelf, and through the small leaded panes of the window streamed the apricot-coloured light of a summer day in London.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  In the huge gilt Venetian lantern, spoil of some Doge's barge, that hung from the ceiling of the great, oak-panelled hall of entrance, lights were still burning from three flickering jets: thin blue petals of flame they seemed, rimmed with white fire.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  Finally his bell sounded, and Victor came in softly with a cup of tea, and a pile of letters, on a small tray of old Sevres china, and drew back the olive-satin curtains, with their shimmering blue lining, that hung in front of the three tall windows.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
17  He had chasubles, also, of amber-coloured silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
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