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1  Its red and white roses would die.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  The sky above was like a faded rose.
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3  He glanced quickly round and rose to his feet.
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4  Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that.
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5  They rose up and sauntered down the walk together.
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6  A rose shook in her blood and shadowed her cheeks.
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7  He was like a common gardener walking with a rose.
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8  The heavy scent of the roses seemed to brood over everything.
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9  Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
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10  A flower was in her right hand, and her left clasped an enamelled collar of white and damask roses.
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11  A bee flew in and buzzed round the blue-dragon bowl that, filled with sulphur-yellow roses, stood before him.
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12  Edward II gave to Piers Gaveston a suit of red-gold armour studded with jacinths, a collar of gold roses set with turquoise-stones, and a skull-cap parseme with pearls.
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13  A long line of boys carrying crates of striped tulips, and of yellow and red roses, defiled in front of him, threading their way through the huge, jade-green piles of vegetables.
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14  He was like one of those gracious figures in a pageant or a play, whose joys seem to be remote from one, but whose sorrows stir one's sense of beauty, and whose wounds are like red roses.
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15  Her white feet trod the huge press at which wise Omar sits, till the seething grape-juice rose round her bare limbs in waves of purple bubbles, or crawled in red foam over the vat's black, dripping, sloping sides.
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16  And how charming he had been at dinner the night before, as with startled eyes and lips parted in frightened pleasure he had sat opposite to him at the club, the red candleshades staining to a richer rose the wakening wonder of his face.
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17  The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
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