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1  Death walked there in the sunlight.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
2  It is the coming of death that terrifies me.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  Death is the only thing that ever terrifies me.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  A verdict of death by misadventure was returned.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  Then Death himself had touched her and taken her with him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  It was the living death of his own soul that troubled him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  There was something fascinating in this son of love and death.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  Yes: it is a matter of life and death, Alan, and to more than one person.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  He felt as if his heart was beating itself to death in some empty hollow.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  Her death has all the pathetic uselessness of martyrdom, all its wasted beauty.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  Nor, indeed, was it the death of Basil Hallward that weighed most upon his mind.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  It had received the news of Sibyl Vane's death before he had known of it himself.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  The dreadful death of the unlucky beater, shot in the thicket like a wild animal, had seemed to him to pre-figure death for himself also.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  Now it was to hide something that had a corruption of its own, worse than the corruption of death itself--something that would breed horrors and yet would never die.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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17  But you must think of that lonely death in the tawdry dressing-room simply as a strange lurid fragment from some Jacobean tragedy, as a wonderful scene from Webster, or Ford, or Cyril Tourneur.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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