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1  "It is too late, Basil," he faltered.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
2  Of late he had felt no such pleasure.
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3  They have been very fortunate lately, however.
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4  I shall be late for lunch, if I stop any longer.
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5  It was not too late to make reparation for that.
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6  It is rather late, and, as you have to dress, you had better lose no time.
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7  If I am late he is sure to be furious, and I couldn't have a scene in this bonnet.
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8  I read of it quite by chance in a late edition of The Globe that I picked up at the club.
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9  He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
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10  Basil," said the lad, going over to him and putting his hand on his shoulder, "you have come too late.
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11  He had that dislike of being stared at, which comes on geniuses late in life and never leaves the commonplace.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
12  I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions--that they are always made too late.
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13  "And I don't forgive you for being late for dinner," broke in Lord Henry, putting his hand on the lad's shoulder and smiling as he spoke.
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14  His valet had crept several times on tiptoe into the room to see if he was stirring, and had wondered what made his young master sleep so late.
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15  What the invention of oil-painting was to the Venetians, the face of Antinous was to late Greek sculpture, and the face of Dorian Gray will some day be to me.
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16  His eye fell on a large, purple satin coverlet heavily embroidered with gold, a splendid piece of late seventeenth-century Venetian work that his grandfather had found in a convent near Bologna.
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17  Then, after his valet had reminded him several times of the lateness of the hour, he got up, and going into the next room, placed the book on the little Florentine table that always stood at his bedside and began to dress for dinner.
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