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1  Leaden with fear, his mother watched him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  With his subtle smile, Lord Henry watched him.
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3  For there would be a real pleasure in watching it.
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4  Lord Henry watched him with a subtle sense of pleasure.
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5  Hallward amused himself with watching the faces in the pit.
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6  Lord Henry flung himself into a large wicker arm-chair and watched him.
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7  Yet it was watching him, with its beautiful marred face and its cruel smile.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  "Dorian Gray is engaged to be married," said Lord Henry, watching him as he spoke.
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9  She laughed nervously as she spoke, and watched him with her vague forget-me-not eyes.
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10  The lad hesitated, and looked over at Lord Henry, who was watching them from the tea-table with an amused smile.
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11  He drove off by himself, as had been arranged, and watched the flashing lights of the little brougham in front of him.
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12  I have watched her wandering through the forest of Arden, disguised as a pretty boy in hose and doublet and dainty cap.
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13  The young man was leaning against the mantelshelf, watching him with that strange expression that one sees on the faces of those who are absorbed in a play when some great artist is acting.
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14  It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.
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15  There was a wild recklessness of gaiety in his manner as he sat at table, but now and then a thrill of terror ran through him when he remembered that, pressed against the window of the conservatory, like a white handkerchief, he had seen the face of James Vane watching him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  After a strained moment of silence, he leaned across and said, very quietly, but watching the effect of each word upon the face of him he had sent for, "Alan, in a locked room at the top of this house, a room to which nobody but myself has access, a dead man is seated at a table."
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17  He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.
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