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1  I didn't dare show my face at Court for a month.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
2  Her teeth showed like white seeds in a scarlet fruit.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
3  She showed no sign of joy when her eyes rested on Romeo.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
4  I will show you the way, Mr. Hubbard, if you will kindly follow me.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
5  The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
6  He showed me a letter that his wife had written to him when she was dying alone in her villa at Mentone.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
7  Yes," he continued, coming closer to him and looking steadfastly into his stern eyes, "I shall show you my soul.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
8  You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
9  When he thought of her, it would be as a wonderful tragic figure sent on to the world's stage to show the supreme reality of love.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
10  If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
11  It seemed to him that in exquisite raiment, and to the delicate sound of flutes, the sins of the world were passing in dumb show before him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
12  Perhaps, some day, the cruel look would have passed away from the scarlet sensitive mouth, and he might show to the world Basil Hallward's masterpiece.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
13  The quivering ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
14  Yes: that blind, slow-breathing thing crawled no more, and horrible thoughts, time being dead, raced nimbly on in front, and dragged a hideous future from its grave, and showed it to him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
15  Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
16  Dim and wavering as was the wind-blown light, yet it served to show him the hideous error, as it seemed, into which he had fallen, for the face of the man he had sought to kill had all the bloom of boyhood, all the unstained purity of youth.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
17  Upon the walls of the lonely locked room where he had spent so much of his boyhood, he had hung with his own hands the terrible portrait whose changing features showed him the real degradation of his life, and in front of it had draped the purple-and-gold pall as a curtain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
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