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1  The sunlight slipped over the polished leaves.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
2  Huge carts filled with nodding lilies rumbled slowly down the polished empty street.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
3  I had drawn you as Paris in dainty armour, and as Adonis with huntsman's cloak and polished boar-spear.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
4  He winced and, taking up from the table an oval glass framed in ivory Cupids, one of Lord Henry's many presents to him, glanced hurriedly into its polished depths.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
5  In a second he heard the click of a revolver, and saw the gleam of a polished barrel, pointing straight at his head, and the dusky form of a short, thick-set man facing him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
6  He took it up, as he had done on that night of horror when he had first noted the change in the fatal picture, and with wild, tear-dimmed eyes looked into its polished shield.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20
7  He never knew--never, indeed, had any cause to know--that somewhat grotesque dread of mirrors, and polished metal surfaces, and still water which came upon the young Parisian so early in his life, and was occasioned by the sudden decay of a beau that had once, apparently, been so remarkable.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11