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1  I don't want to have it hung up.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  The moon hung low in the sky like a yellow skull.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  Beside him hung the portrait of his wife, a pallid, thin-lipped woman in black.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  Charles of England had ridden in stirrups hung with four hundred and twenty-one diamonds.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  The youths in the gallery had taken off their coats and waistcoats and hung them over the side.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  I asked her whether, like Marguerite de Navarre, she had their hearts embalmed and hung at her girdle.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  The ducal hat of Charles the Rash, the last Duke of Burgundy of his race, was hung with pear-shaped pearls and studded with sapphires.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  At the end of the hall hung a tattered green curtain that swayed and shook in the gusty wind which had followed him in from the street.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  It was a small Chinese box of black and gold-dust lacquer, elaborately wrought, the sides patterned with curved waves, and the silken cords hung with round crystals and tasselled in plaited metal threads.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  In the huge gilt Venetian lantern, spoil of some Doge's barge, that hung from the ceiling of the great, oak-panelled hall of entrance, lights were still burning from three flickering jets: thin blue petals of flame they seemed, rimmed with white fire.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  Finally his bell sounded, and Victor came in softly with a cup of tea, and a pile of letters, on a small tray of old Sevres china, and drew back the olive-satin curtains, with their shimmering blue lining, that hung in front of the three tall windows.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  Its curtains were of damask, with leafy wreaths and garlands, figured upon a gold and silver ground, and fringed along the edges with broideries of pearls, and it stood in a room hung with rows of the queen's devices in cut black velvet upon cloth of silver.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  Upon the walls of the lonely locked room where he had spent so much of his boyhood, he had hung with his own hands the terrible portrait whose changing features showed him the real degradation of his life, and in front of it had draped the purple-and-gold pall as a curtain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  He turned them out and, having thrown his hat and cape on the table, passed through the library towards the door of his bedroom, a large octagonal chamber on the ground floor that, in his new-born feeling for luxury, he had just had decorated for himself and hung with some curious Renaissance tapestries that had been discovered stored in a disused attic at Selby Royal.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7