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1  The elder man buried his face in his hands.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
2  I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
3  Campbell buried his face in his hands, and a shudder passed through him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
4  "She will never come to life again now," muttered the lad, burying his face in his hands.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
5  Then he flung himself into the rickety chair that was standing by the table and buried his face in his hands.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
6  Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
7  In one corner, with his head buried in his arms, a sailor sprawled over a table, and by the tawdrily painted bar that ran across one complete side stood two haggard women, mocking an old man who was brushing the sleeves of his coat with an expression of disgust.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
8  She had proved an excellent wife to one of our most tedious ambassadors, and having buried her husband properly in a marble mausoleum, which she had herself designed, and married off her daughters to some rich, rather elderly men, she devoted herself now to the pleasures of French fiction, French cookery, and French esprit when she could get it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15