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1  You are an extraordinary fellow.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  It was an extraordinary improvisation.
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3  Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary.
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4  You were rather cheeky, very shy, and absolutely extraordinary.
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5  There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes, said Lord Henry.
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6  The presence of a third person in the room seemed to give him extraordinary courage.
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7  He was a most offensive brute, though he had an extraordinary passion for Shakespeare.
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8  Dorian, from the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me.
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9  It is extraordinary to me, Dorian," said Hallward, "that you should have seen this in the portrait.
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10  A quarter of an hour afterwards, amidst an extraordinary turmoil of applause, Sibyl Vane stepped on to the stage.
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11  He procured from Amsterdam three emeralds of extraordinary size and richness of colour, and had a turquoise de la vieille roche that was the envy of all the connoisseurs.
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12  As he investigated the subject--and he always had an extraordinary faculty of becoming absolutely absorbed for the moment in whatever he took up--he was almost saddened by the reflection of the ruin that time brought on beautiful and wonderful things.
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13  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.
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14  In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement and gave rise to so many strange conjectures.
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