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1  The moon hung low in the sky like a yellow skull.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
2  Look at that great, honey-coloured moon that hangs in the dusky air.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
3  The garnet cast out demons, and the hydropicus deprived the moon of her colour.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
4  They had been plucked at midnight, and the coldness of the moon had entered into them.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
5  The selenite waxed and waned with the moon, and the meloceus, that discovers thieves, could be affected only by the blood of kids.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
6  It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
7  A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
8  But he never fell into the error of arresting his intellectual development by any formal acceptance of creed or system, or of mistaking, for a house in which to live, an inn that is but suitable for the sojourn of a night, or for a few hours of a night in which there are no stars and the moon is in travail.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11