1 After some time she became silent.
2 After a few minutes he became absorbed.
3 Her gestures became absurdly artificial.
4 Life suddenly became fiery-coloured to him.
5 There was pity in her eyes that became laughter on her lips.
6 Men who talked grossly became silent when Dorian Gray entered the room.
7 The silence, for he made no other observation, became intolerable to her.
8 Then it became a little louder, and sounded like a flute or a distant hautboy.
9 His eyes darkened, and the crowded flaring streets became blurred to his eyes.
10 He had absolutely nothing to do, almost died of ennui, and became a confirmed misanthrope.
11 You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
12 The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.
13 Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.
14 Yes, it was better to let Lord Henry in, and to explain to him the new life he was going to lead, to quarrel with him if it became necessary to quarrel, to part if parting was inevitable.
15 Even those who had heard the most evil things against him--and from time to time strange rumours about his mode of life crept through London and became the chatter of the clubs--could not believe anything to his dishonour when they saw him.
16 To-night, for the first time, I became conscious that the Romeo was hideous, and old, and painted, that the moonlight in the orchard was false, that the scenery was vulgar, and that the words I had to speak were unreal, were not my words, were not what I wanted to say.
17 The praise of folly, as he went on, soared into a philosophy, and philosophy herself became young, and catching the mad music of pleasure, wearing, one might fancy, her wine-stained robe and wreath of ivy, danced like a Bacchante over the hills of life, and mocked the slow Silenus for being sober.
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