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1  It will never be older than this particular day of June.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
2  She was only a year older than he was, but she knew so much more of life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
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  When the cab drew up at the theatre, it seemed to him that he had grown years older.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
5  Yes," murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; "and when they grow older they know it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
6  Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
7  He seemed little more than a lad of twenty summers, hardly older, if older indeed at all, than his sister had been when they had parted so many years ago.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
8  He had not entered the place for more than four years--not, indeed, since he had used it first as a play-room when he was a child, and then as a study when he grew somewhat older.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10