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1  Her tears and sobs annoyed him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
2  "Dorian is never annoyed with me," he answered.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
3  "It is an annoying subject," broke in Lord Henry.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
4  The formal monotonous ticking of the Louis Quatorze clock annoyed him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
5  You were a little annoyed; but then you did not realize all that it meant to me.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
6  One he read several times over and then tore up with a slight look of annoyance in his face.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
7  I must admit that I was rather annoyed at the idea of seeing Shakespeare done in such a wretched hole of a place.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
8  She was extremely annoyed at the tone he had adopted with her, and there was something in his look that had made her feel afraid.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
9  Certainly few people had ever interested him so much as Dorian Gray, and yet the lad's mad adoration of some one else caused him not the slightest pang of annoyance or jealousy.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
10  Indeed, he was still devoted to the study of chemistry, and had a laboratory of his own in which he used to shut himself up all day long, greatly to the annoyance of his mother, who had set her heart on his standing for Parliament and had a vague idea that a chemist was a person who made up prescriptions.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  His father had been our ambassador at Madrid when Isabella was young and Prim unthought of, but had retired from the diplomatic service in a capricious moment of annoyance on not being offered the Embassy at Paris, a post to which he considered that he was fully entitled by reason of his birth, his indolence, the good English of his dispatches, and his inordinate passion for pleasure.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3