1 It was long past noon when he awoke.
2 The cool water refreshed him after his long sleep.
3 "Not as long as you love him, I suppose," was the sullen answer.
4 As long as I live, the personality of Dorian Gray will dominate me.
5 I myself used to have literary ambitions, but I gave them up long ago.
6 A long engagement exhausts them, but they are capital at a steeplechase.
7 Yes, it was for the long palette-knife, with its thin blade of lithe steel.
8 As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
9 "Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty," said Lord Henry, pulling the daisy to bits with his long nervous fingers.
10 He pictured to himself with silent amusement the tedious luncheon that he had missed by staying so long with Basil Hallward.
11 The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife.
12 A grasshopper began to chirrup by the wall, and like a blue thread a long thin dragon-fly floated past on its brown gauze wings.
13 "It is quite finished," he cried at last, and stooping down he wrote his name in long vermilion letters on the left-hand corner of the canvas.
14 A long line of boys carrying crates of striped tulips, and of yellow and red roses, defiled in front of him, threading their way through the huge, jade-green piles of vegetables.
15 After about a quarter of an hour Hallward stopped painting, looked for a long time at Dorian Gray, and then for a long time at the picture, biting the end of one of his huge brushes and frowning.
16 The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive.
17 "Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know," cried Lord Henry, laughing; and the two young men went out into the garden together and ensconced themselves on a long bamboo seat that stood in the shade of a tall laurel bush.
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