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1  Her gestures became absurdly artificial.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
2  They moved like monstrous marionettes and made gestures like live things.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
3  To myself, perhaps, he added, passing his hand over his eyes, with a gesture of pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
4  "Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil," cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
5  These common rough people, with their coarse faces and brutal gestures, become quite different when she is on the stage.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
6  He kept his hands in the pockets of his Astrakhan coat, and seemed not to have noticed the gesture with which he had been greeted.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
7  The exaggerated folly of the threat, the passionate gesture that accompanied it, the mad melodramatic words, made life seem more vivid to her.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
8  Mrs. Vane glanced at her, and with one of those false theatrical gestures that so often become a mode of second nature to a stage-player, clasped her in her arms.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5