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1  He went to his room and dressed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17
2  They get all their dresses in Paris.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  And now you had better dress and drive down to the club.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  It is rather late, and, as you have to dress, you had better lose no time.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  Some southern wind of passion swept over her and stirred the dainty folds of her dress.
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6  Through the crowd of ungainly, shabbily dressed actors, Sibyl Vane moved like a creature from a finer world.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  The scene was the hall of Capulet's house, and Romeo in his pilgrim's dress had entered with Mercutio and his other friends.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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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
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10  "My son, don't say such dreadful things," murmured Mrs. Vane, taking up a tawdry theatrical dress, with a sigh, and beginning to patch it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  While Lord Henry sat dreaming on these things, a knock came to the door, and his valet entered and reminded him it was time to dress for dinner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  As midnight was striking bronze blows upon the dusky air, Dorian Gray, dressed commonly, and with a muffler wrapped round his throat, crept quietly out of his house.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  As soon as he was dressed, he went into the library and sat down to a light French breakfast that had been laid out for him on a small round table close to the open window.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  That evening, at eight-thirty, exquisitely dressed and wearing a large button-hole of Parma violets, Dorian Gray was ushered into Lady Narborough's drawing-room by bowing servants.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  One day, a fatal day I sometimes think, I determined to paint a wonderful portrait of you as you actually are, not in the costume of dead ages, but in your own dress and in your own time.
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16  After I left you yesterday evening, Harry, I dressed, had some dinner at that little Italian restaurant in Rupert Street you introduced me to, and went down at eight o'clock to the theatre.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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17  When the half-hour struck, he passed his hand across his forehead, and then got up hastily and dressed himself with even more than his usual care, giving a good deal of attention to the choice of his necktie and scarf-pin and changing his rings more than once.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
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