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1  I am not going to break my word to her.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
2  There was the madness of pride in every word he uttered.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
3  But I wish you had left word where you had really gone to.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
4  You don't mean a single word of all that, Harry; you know you don't.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
5  If you try to look at it, Basil, on my word of honour I will never speak to you again as long as I live.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
6  The word doctrinaire--word full of terror to the British mind--reappeared from time to time between his explosions.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
7  You are not listening to a word I am saying, Jim," cried Sibyl, "and I am making the most delightful plans for your future.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
8  The door opened quietly, and he went in without saying a word to the squat misshapen figure that flattened itself into the shadow as he passed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
9  I remember Harry saying once that every man who turned himself into an amateur curate for the moment always began by saying that, and then proceeded to break his word.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
10  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."
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14