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1  He sighed and touched the bell.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
2  He answered to every touch and thrill of the bow.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  Then Death himself had touched her and taken her with him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  One would have said that there was a touch of cruelty in the mouth.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  Her flowerlike lips touched the withered cheek and warmed its frost.
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6  As he was passing out of the door, Dorian Gray touched him on the arm.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  Just touch the bell, and when Parker comes I will tell him what you want.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  When you met Lady Gwendolen, not a breath of scandal had ever touched her.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  His eyelids drooped till the long fringed lashes almost touched his cheek.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  The moment she touched actual life, she marred it, and it marred her, and so she passed away.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  "It is only the sacred things that are worth touching, Dorian," said Lord Henry, with a strange touch of pathos in his voice.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
12  At last he got up from the sofa on which he had been lying, went over to it, and having unlocked it, touched some hidden spring.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
13  As he closed the door behind him, Dorian Gray touched the bell, and in a few minutes Victor appeared with the lamps and drew the blinds down.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  The man touched his hat, glanced for a moment at Lord Henry in a hesitating manner, and then produced a letter, which he handed to his master.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  As his pointed fingers touched it, it dropped the white scurf of crinkled lids over black, glasslike eyes and began to sway backwards and forwards.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  Hallward painted away with that marvellous bold touch of his, that had the true refinement and perfect delicacy that in art, at any rate comes only from strength.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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17  The few words that Basil's friend had said to him--words spoken by chance, no doubt, and with wilful paradox in them--had touched some secret chord that had never been touched before, but that he felt was now vibrating and throbbing to curious pulses.
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