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1  I am so sorry I didn't act well.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
2  It annihilates the desire to act.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
3  When you are ill you shouldn't act.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
4  The last act was played to almost empty benches.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
5  At any rate, I determined to wait for the first act.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
6  As for Alan Campbell, his suicide had been his own act.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20
7  As a rule, people who act lead the most commonplace lives.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
8  She is quite beautiful, Dorian," he said, "but she can't act.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
9  The common people who acted with me seemed to me to be godlike.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
10  I want you and Basil to come with me some night and see her act.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
11  Yet they felt that the true test of any Juliet is the balcony scene of the second act.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
12  A few moments afterwards the footlights flared up and the curtain rose on the third act.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
13  Well, I can't help going to see Sibyl play," he cried, "even if it is only for a single act.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
14  The last night she played--the night you saw her--she acted badly because she had known the reality of love.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
15  They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
16  When the second act was over, there came a storm of hisses, and Lord Henry got up from his chair and put on his coat.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
17  There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstance, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
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