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1  The cheeks would become hollow or flaccid.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
2  He would become dreadful, hideous, and uncouth.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  I become different from what you have known me to be.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
4  You really must not allow yourself to become sunburnt.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  The wood seemed to him to have become suddenly alive with faces.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
7  Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
8  To become the spectator of one's own life, as Harry says, is to escape the suffering of life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
9  They have become stout and tedious, and when I meet them, they go in at once for reminiscences.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  They become more highly organized, and to be highly organized is, I should fancy, the object of man's existence.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
11  These common rough people, with their coarse faces and brutal gestures, become quite different when she is on the stage.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
12  I hope that Dorian Gray will make this girl his wife, passionately adore her for six months, and then suddenly become fascinated by some one else.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  Mrs. Vane glanced at her, and with one of those false theatrical gestures that so often become a mode of second nature to a stage-player, clasped her in her arms.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
14  They say that you corrupt every one with whom you become intimate, and that it is quite sufficient for you to enter a house for shame of some kind to follow after.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  Every day he seemed to become more interested in biology, and his name appeared once or twice in some of the scientific reviews in connection with certain curious experiments.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  I only knew that I had seen perfection face to face, and that the world had become wonderful to my eyes--too wonderful, perhaps, for in such mad worships there is peril, the peril of losing them, no less than the peril of keeping them.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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17  He was very nearly blackballed at a West End club of which his birth and social position fully entitled him to become a member, and it was said that on one occasion, when he was brought by a friend into the smoking-room of the Churchill, the Duke of Berwick and another gentleman got up in a marked manner and went out.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
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