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1  My wife is very good at it--much better, in fact, than I am.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
2  The man with whom my wife ran away played Chopin exquisitely.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
3  When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
4  I never know where my wife is, and my wife never knows what I am doing.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
5  I told her that I loved her, and she said she was not worthy to be my wife.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
6  Beside him hung the portrait of his wife, a pallid, thin-lipped woman in black.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
7  Oh, the Willoughbys, Lord Rugby and his wife, our hostess, Geoffrey Clouston, the usual set.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
8  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
9  I hope that Dorian Gray will make this girl his wife, passionately adore her for six months, and then suddenly become fascinated by some one else.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly incrusted with nacre, a present from Lady Radley, his guardian's wife, a pretty professional invalid who had spent the preceding winter in Cairo, was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  She had proved an excellent wife to one of our most tedious ambassadors, and having buried her husband properly in a marble mausoleum, which she had herself designed, and married off her daughters to some rich, rather elderly men, she devoted herself now to the pleasures of French fiction, French cookery, and French esprit when she could get it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15