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1  The girl grew white, and trembled.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  Its red and white roses would die.
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3  In the grass, white daisies were tremulous.
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4  She trembled all over and shook like a white narcissus.
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5  The curves of her throat were the curves of a white lily.
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6  His cool, white, flowerlike hands, even, had a curious charm.
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7  I don't know what it was, but it had either prussic acid or white lead in it.
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8  Gradually white fingers creep through the curtains, and they appear to tremble.
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9  He would place his white hands beside the coarse bloated hands of the picture, and smile.
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10  Grace was his, and the white purity of boyhood, and beauty such as old Greek marbles kept for us.
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11  Leonardus Camillus had seen a white stone taken from the brain of a newly killed toad, that was a certain antidote against poison.
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12  With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stock-broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
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13  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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14  Another cope was of green velvet, embroidered with heart-shaped groups of acanthus-leaves, from which spread long-stemmed white blossoms, the details of which were picked out with silver thread and coloured crystals.
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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.
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16  He was conscious--and the thought brought a gleam of pleasure into his brown agate eyes--that it was through certain words of his, musical words said with musical utterance, that Dorian Gray's soul had turned to this white girl and bowed in worship before her.
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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.
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