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1  The whole of Venice was in those two lines.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
2  Campbell scrawled a few lines, blotted them, and addressed an envelope to his assistant.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
3  I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
4  The mere lines looked to him like those straight lines of turquoise-blue that follow one as one pushes out to the Lido.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
5  If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
6  The vicious cruelty that marred the fine lines of the mouth had, no doubt, appeared at the very moment that the girl had drunk the poison, whatever it was.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
7  The quivering ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
8  Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
9  She wore a moss-coloured velvet jerkin with cinnamon sleeves, slim, brown, cross-gartered hose, a dainty little green cap with a hawk's feather caught in a jewel, and a hooded cloak lined with dull red.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
10  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
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
11  He would examine with minute care, and sometimes with a monstrous and terrible delight, the hideous lines that seared the wrinkling forehead or crawled around the heavy sensual mouth, wondering sometimes which were the more horrible, the signs of sin or the signs of age.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
12  In the long cedar chests that lined the west gallery of his house, he had stored away many rare and beautiful specimens of what is really the raiment of the Bride of Christ, who must wear purple and jewels and fine linen that she may hide the pallid macerated body that is worn by the suffering that she seeks for and wounded by self-inflicted pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
13  He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain young, and the portrait grow old; that his own beauty might be untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7