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1  That was horrible in its cruelty.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  There was a horrible fascination in them all.
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3  It is too ugly, too horrible, too distressing.
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4  No one would ever look upon the horrible thing.
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5  It was a horrible thing to have a spy in one's house.
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6  He felt that he was on the brink of a horrible danger.
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7  He grew nervous, and a horrible fit of terror came over him.
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8  The horrible night that he had passed had left phantoms behind it.
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9  Yellow crow's feet would creep round the fading eyes and make them horrible.
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10  There was a stifled groan and the horrible sound of some one choking with blood.
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11  You must give me some answer to these horrible charges that are made against you.
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12  He would not think any more of what she had made him go through, on that horrible night at the theatre.
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13  For a moment, he thought of praying that the horrible sympathy that existed between him and the picture might cease.
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14  Well, Dorian," he said at length, with a sad smile, "I won't speak to you again about this horrible thing, after to-day.
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15  He recalled the stainless purity of his boyish life, and it seemed horrible to him that it was here the fatal portrait was to be hidden away.
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16  A chance phrase that he had heard at the theatre, a whispered sneer that had reached his ears one night as he waited at the stage-door, had set loose a train of horrible thoughts.
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17  He would examine with minute care, and sometimes with a monstrous and terrible delight, the hideous lines that seared the wrinkling forehead or crawled around the heavy sensual mouth, wondering sometimes which were the more horrible, the signs of sin or the signs of age.
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