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1  No winter marred his face or stained his flowerlike bloom.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
2  But for those two things, his life might have been free from stain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20
3  He had cleaned it many times, till there was no stain left upon it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  He saw it creeping into the stained trumpet of a Tyrian convolvulus.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  The flies buzzed round the table and crawled over the stained cloth.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
6  For every sin that he committed, a stain would fleck and wreck its fairness.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  The floor was covered with ochre-coloured sawdust, trampled here and there into mud, and stained with dark rings of spilled liquor.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
8  They wondered how one so charming and graceful as he was could have escaped the stain of an age that was at once sordid and sensual.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  And how charming he had been at dinner the night before, as with startled eyes and lips parted in frightened pleasure he had sat opposite to him at the club, the red candleshades staining to a richer rose the wakening wonder of his face.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3