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1  And Hallward walked towards the corner of the room.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
2  When he reached the library, he saw the bag and coat in the corner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
3  The crimson spot of a prowling hansom gleamed at the corner and then vanished.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
4  In the left-hand corner was his own name, traced in long letters of bright vermilion.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
5  In black fantastic shapes, dumb shadows crawl into the corners of the room and crouch there.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
6  He broke from her with an oath and rushed to the corner of the street, but Dorian Gray had disappeared.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
7  The bright dawn flooded the room and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
8  Two green-and-white butterflies fluttered past them, and in the pear-tree at the corner of the garden a thrush began to sing.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
9  On a heap of sacking in the far corner was lying the dead body of a man dressed in a coarse shirt and a pair of blue trousers.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
10  As they turned a corner, a woman yelled something at them from an open door, and two men ran after the hansom for about a hundred yards.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
11  At the corner of the pine-wood he caught sight of Sir Geoffrey Clouston, the duchess's brother, jerking two spent cartridges out of his gun.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
12  "It is quite finished," he cried at last, and stooping down he wrote his name in long vermilion letters on the left-hand corner of the canvas.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
13  "Thanks, I won't have anything more," said the painter, taking his cap and coat off and throwing them on the bag that he had placed in the corner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
14  At the corner of Grosvenor Square and South Audley Street, a man passed him in the mist, walking very fast and with the collar of his grey ulster turned up.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
15  His extraordinary absences became notorious, and, when he used to reappear again in society, men would whisper to each other in corners, or pass him with a sneer, or look at him with cold searching eyes, as though they were determined to discover his secret.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  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