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1  "I wish I knew," she said at last.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
2  "I wish she were ill," he rejoined.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
3  I wish you would tell me your secret.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
4  I wish you could come to the theatre to-night.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
5  I wish that I had ever had such an experience.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
6  I wish I could change places with you, Dorian.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
7  I wish now that I was not going to Australia at all.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
8  "I wish it were fin du globe," said Dorian with a sigh.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
9  "I wish I could trust myself," said Lord Henry, laughing.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
10  But I wish you had left word where you had really gone to.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
11  "I wish it were stopped for ever, Harry," he answered bitterly.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
12  I wish to see it, he said, clutching at the door-post for support.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
13  "I wish I could love," cried Dorian Gray with a deep note of pathos in his voice.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
14  I am glad he is not, after all--though I wish you chaps would not squabble over the picture.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
15  I wish I could believe that he had come to such a really romantic end as you suggest, but I can't.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19