1 Our fathers used to like that sort of piece, I believe.
2 And, remember, it is the only piece of evidence against me.
3 Then he stretched out his hand, took a piece of paper, and wrote something on it.
4 He frowned, and tearing the paper in two, went across the room and flung the pieces away.
5 I went to look after a piece of old brocade in Wardour Street and had to bargain for hours for it.
6 It was a knife that he had brought up, some days before, to cut a piece of cord, and had forgotten to take away with him.
7 As soon as he was alone, he lit a cigarette and began sketching upon a piece of paper, drawing first flowers and bits of architecture, and then human faces.
8 Harry, I can't quarrel with my two best friends at once, but between you both you have made me hate the finest piece of work I have ever done, and I will destroy it.
9 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.
10 When the Huns lured the king into the great pit, he flung it away--Procopius tells the story--nor was it ever found again, though the Emperor Anastasius offered five hundred-weight of gold pieces for it.
11 But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play--I tell you, Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.