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1  He spoke rapidly and in an authoritative manner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
2  He is a suggestion, as I have said, of a new manner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
3  Lord Henry sipped his champagne in a meditative manner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
4  They have their stereotyped smile and their fashionable manner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
5  He stamped his foot upon the ground in his boyish insolent manner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
6  with the brief dialogue that follows, were spoken in a thoroughly artificial manner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
7  "Oh, I am tired of sitting, and I don't want a life-sized portrait of myself," answered the lad, swinging round on the music-stool in a wilful, petulant manner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
8  His forehead was throbbing with maddened nerves, and he felt wildly excited, but his manner as he bent over his hostess's hand was as easy and graceful as ever.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
9  When he entered, a young man with smooth yellow hair, who was bending over a lamp lighting a long thin pipe, looked up at him and nodded in a hesitating manner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
10  It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
11  The Renaissance knew of strange manners of poisoning--poisoning by a helmet and a lighted torch, by an embroidered glove and a jewelled fan, by a gilded pomander and by an amber chain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  Lady Narborough kept scolding him for what she called "an insult to poor Adolphe, who invented the menu specially for you," and now and then Lord Henry looked across at him, wondering at his silence and abstracted manner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
13  I fancy that the true explanation is this: It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
14  He was very nearly blackballed at a West End club of which his birth and social position fully entitled him to become a member, and it was said that on one occasion, when he was brought by a friend into the smoking-room of the Churchill, the Duke of Berwick and another gentleman got up in a marked manner and went out.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  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
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
16  Of such insolences and attempted slights he, of course, took no notice, and in the opinion of most people his frank debonair manner, his charming boyish smile, and the infinite grace of that wonderful youth that seemed never to leave him, were in themselves a sufficient answer to the calumnies, for so they termed them, that were circulated about him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
17  Fortunately for him she had on the other side Lord Faudel, a most intelligent middle-aged mediocrity, as bald as a ministerial statement in the House of Commons, with whom she was conversing in that intensely earnest manner which is the one unpardonable error, as he remarked once himself, that all really good people fall into, and from which none of them ever quite escape.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
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