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1  Dorian Gray grew sick with fear.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  "A great many, I fear," she cried.
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3  Leaden with fear, his mother watched him.
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4  I have not the slightest fear of the result.
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5  "I fear you are right," answered Mr. Erskine.
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6  "I fear so," she said, laughing, as she stood up.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  "How fearful," he muttered, and a shudder ran through him.
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8  No," said Dorian Gray, "there is nothing fearful about it.
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9  The rotting of a corpse in a watery grave was not so fearful.
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10  A strange sense of fear, for which he could not account, came over him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  There was a look of fear in his eyes, such as people have when they are suddenly awakened.
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12  I believe he is in love," cried Lady Narborough, "and that he is afraid to tell me for fear I should be jealous.
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13  And with fear in his eyes, Lord Henry rushed through the flapping palms to find Dorian Gray lying face downwards on the tiled floor in a deathlike swoon.
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14  Besides, he had convinced himself that he had been the victim of a terror-stricken imagination, and looked back now on his fears with something of pity and not a little of contempt.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or for what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  For these treasures, and everything that he collected in his lovely house, were to be to him means of forgetfulness, modes by which he could escape, for a season, from the fear that seemed to him at times to be almost too great to be borne.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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17  His unreal and selfish love would yield to some higher influence, would be transformed into some nobler passion, and the portrait that Basil Hallward had painted of him would be a guide to him through life, would be to him what holiness is to some, and conscience to others, and the fear of God to us all.
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