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1  They cut the air like a dagger.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
2  Yesterday I cut an orchid, for my button-hole.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17
3  A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
4  She would have liked to have continued the scene on the same emotional scale, but he cut her short.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
5  It was a knife that he had brought up, some days before, to cut a piece of cord, and had forgotten to take away with him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
6  So I have murdered Sibyl Vane," said Dorian Gray, half to himself, "murdered her as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
7  Its curtains were of damask, with leafy wreaths and garlands, figured upon a gold and silver ground, and fringed along the edges with broideries of pearls, and it stood in a room hung with rows of the queen's devices in cut black velvet upon cloth of silver.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11