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1  You had better not come down to dinner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17
2  But at dinner he could not eat anything.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
3  Good-bye, Mother; I will have my dinner at five o'clock.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
4  One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
5  I am bound to state that she ate an enormous dinner, so I did not feel any anxiety.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
6  But we are not likely to suffer from it unless these fellows keep chattering about this thing at dinner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
7  There has not been a scandal in the neighbourhood since the time of Queen Elizabeth, and consequently they all fall asleep after dinner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
8  "And I don't forgive you for being late for dinner," broke in Lord Henry, putting his hand on the lad's shoulder and smiling as he spoke.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
9  While Lord Henry sat dreaming on these things, a knock came to the door, and his valet entered and reminded him it was time to dress for dinner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
10  And, after all, it is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in his private life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
11  After I left you yesterday evening, Harry, I dressed, had some dinner at that little Italian restaurant in Rupert Street you introduced me to, and went down at eight o'clock to the theatre.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
12  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
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
13  Then, after his valet had reminded him several times of the lateness of the hour, he got up, and going into the next room, placed the book on the little Florentine table that always stood at his bedside and began to dress for dinner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
14  And how charming he had been at dinner the night before, as with startled eyes and lips parted in frightened pleasure he had sat opposite to him at the club, the red candleshades staining to a richer rose the wakening wonder of his face.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  His little dinners, in the settling of which Lord Henry always assisted him, were noted as much for the careful selection and placing of those invited, as for the exquisite taste shown in the decoration of the table, with its subtle symphonic arrangements of exotic flowers, and embroidered cloths, and antique plate of gold and silver.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11