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1  Well, sir, you'll be covered with cobwebs if you go into it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
2  He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
3  The two men sauntered languidly to the table and examined what was under the covers.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
4  Richard II had a coat, valued at thirty thousand marks, which was covered with balas rubies.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
5  The floor was covered with ochre-coloured sawdust, trampled here and there into mud, and stained with dark rings of spilled liquor.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
6  He took up from the couch the great purple-and-gold texture that covered it, and, holding it in his hands, passed behind the screen.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
7  As Dorian Gray was lighting a half-burned candle that was standing on the mantelshelf, he saw that the whole place was covered with dust and that the carpet was in holes.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
8  On one occasion he took up the study of jewels, and appeared at a costume ball as Anne de Joyeuse, Admiral of France, in a dress covered with five hundred and sixty pearls.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
9  I remember her bringing me up to a truculent and red-faced old gentleman covered all over with orders and ribbons, and hissing into my ear, in a tragic whisper which must have been perfectly audible to everybody in the room, the most astounding details.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
10  On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly incrusted with nacre, a present from Lady Radley, his guardian's wife, a pretty professional invalid who had spent the preceding winter in Cairo, was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10