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1  Dorian looked at him for a moment.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  The moment was lost in vulgar details.
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3  He hesitated for a moment, and then put it aside.
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4  A furry bee came and buzzed round it for a moment.
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5  I can't describe to you what I felt at that moment.
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6  He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
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7  For a moment a hideous sense of humiliation came over the woman.
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8  She had marred him for a moment, if he had wounded her for an age.
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9  When he saw it he drew back, and his cheeks flushed for a moment with pleasure.
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10  At this moment, the door opened and a young lad with rough brown hair came into the room.
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11  The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.
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12  When he caught sight of Lord Henry, a faint blush coloured his cheeks for a moment, and he started up.
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13  The moment I met you I saw that you were quite unconscious of what you really are, of what you really might be.
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14  Her eyes caught the melody and echoed it in radiance, then closed for a moment, as though to hide their secret.
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15  The terrible moment, the moment that night and day, for weeks and months, she had dreaded, had come at last, and yet she felt no terror.
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16  He was looking worried, and when he heard Lord Henry's last remark, he glanced at him, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Harry, I want to finish this picture to-day."
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17  His father had been our ambassador at Madrid when Isabella was young and Prim unthought of, but had retired from the diplomatic service in a capricious moment of annoyance on not being offered the Embassy at Paris, a post to which he considered that he was fully entitled by reason of his birth, his indolence, the good English of his dispatches, and his inordinate passion for pleasure.
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