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1  He mocked the misshapen body and the failing limbs.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  The life that was to make his soul would mar his body.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  He stood there for some minutes looking at the dead body.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  Her body swayed, while she danced, as a plant sways in the water.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  In a few moments they emerged, dragging a body after them into the sunlight.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  As it had revealed to him his own body, so it would reveal to him his own soul.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  Indeed, to destroy a body must be far less horrible than what you are accustomed to work at.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  Upstairs, in his own room, Dorian Gray was lying on a sofa, with terror in every tingling fibre of his body.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  Something seemed to tell him that the body was there, and he hurried to the door and put his hand upon the latch.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  On a heap of sacking in the far corner was lying the dead body of a man dressed in a coarse shirt and a pair of blue trousers.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  I was furious with him, and told him that Juliet had been dead for hundreds of years and that her body was lying in a marble tomb in Verona.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  There would be the wrinkled throat, the cold, blue-veined hands, the twisted body, that he remembered in the grandfather who had been so stern to him in his boyhood.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  --An inquest was held this morning at the Bell Tavern, Hoxton Road, by Mr. Danby, the District Coroner, on the body of Sibyl Vane, a young actress recently engaged at the Royal Theatre, Holborn.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or for what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  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