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1  Dorian did not answer for a few moments.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  The painter considered for a few moments.
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3  In a few moments he was out of the theatre.
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4  After a few minutes, they all passed downstairs.
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5  She stepped back a few paces and her lips seemed to tremble.
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6  You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully.
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7  A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime.
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8  The poor chap was killed in a duel at Spa a few months after the marriage.
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9  The band, such as it was, struck up a few bars of music, and the dance began.
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10  "Never marry a woman with straw-coloured hair, Dorian," he said after a few puffs.
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11  She would pray for him, too, and in a few years he would come back quite rich and happy.
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12  A few moments afterwards the footlights flared up and the curtain rose on the third act.
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13  As he closed the door behind him, Dorian Gray touched the bell, and in a few minutes Victor appeared with the lamps and drew the blinds down.
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14  For a few moments he loitered upon the doorstep, looking round at the silent square, with its blank, close-shuttered windows and its staring blinds.
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15  Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away.
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16  Certainly few people had ever interested him so much as Dorian Gray, and yet the lad's mad adoration of some one else caused him not the slightest pang of annoyance or jealousy.
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17  The few words that Basil's friend had said to him--words spoken by chance, no doubt, and with wilful paradox in them--had touched some secret chord that had never been touched before, but that he felt was now vibrating and throbbing to curious pulses.
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