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1 Really, our girls have no chance nowadays.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3
2 He had nearly swooned at what Lord Henry had said in a chance mood of cynical jesting.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 18
3 I read of it quite by chance in a late edition of The Globe that I picked up at the club.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 9
4 He was a marvellous type, too, this lad, whom by so curious a chance he had met in Basil's studio, or could be fashioned into a marvellous type, at any rate.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3
5 A chance phrase that he had heard at the theatre, a whispered sneer that had reached his ears one night as he waited at the stage-door, had set loose a train of horrible thoughts.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 5
6 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.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 2
7 But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play--I tell you, Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 19