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1  In hypocrisy he had worn the mask of goodness.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20
2  His romantic, olive-coloured face and worn expression interested him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
3  I am only ten years older than you are, and I am wrinkled, and worn, and yellow.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
4  Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
5  As he passed out, he used to look with wonder at the black confessionals and long to sit in the dim shadow of one of them and listen to men and women whispering through the worn grating the true story of their lives.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
6  The flameless tapers stand where we had left them, and beside them lies the half-cut book that we had been studying, or the wired flower that we had worn at the ball, or the letter that we had been afraid to read, or that we had read too often.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
7  In the long cedar chests that lined the west gallery of his house, he had stored away many rare and beautiful specimens of what is really the raiment of the Bride of Christ, who must wear purple and jewels and fine linen that she may hide the pallid macerated body that is worn by the suffering that she seeks for and wounded by self-inflicted pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11