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1  As he strolled home, smoking his cigarette, two young men in evening dress passed him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
2  Three young men in elaborate smoking-suits were handing tea-cakes to some of the women.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
3  "Let us go, Basil," said Lord Henry with a strange tenderness in his voice, and the two young men passed out together.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
4  They contained the usual collection of cards, invitations to dinner, tickets for private views, programmes of charity concerts, and the like that are showered on fashionable young men every morning during the season.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
5  "Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know," cried Lord Henry, laughing; and the two young men went out into the garden together and ensconced themselves on a long bamboo seat that stood in the shade of a tall laurel bush.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
6  Indeed, there were many, especially among the very young men, who saw, or fancied that they saw, in Dorian Gray the true realization of a type of which they had often dreamed in Eton or Oxford days, a type that was to combine something of the real culture of the scholar with all the grace and distinction and perfect manner of a citizen of the world.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
7  Sometimes when he was down at his great house in Nottinghamshire, entertaining the fashionable young men of his own rank who were his chief companions, and astounding the county by the wanton luxury and gorgeous splendour of his mode of life, he would suddenly leave his guests and rush back to town to see that the door had not been tampered with and that the picture was still there.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11