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1  Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
2  Hallward amused himself with watching the faces in the pit.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
3  The wood seemed to him to have become suddenly alive with faces.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
4  Something glimmered on the top of the painted chest that faced him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
5  Shrill flaring gas-jets, dulled and distorted in the fly-blown mirrors that faced them, were ranged round the walls.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
6  These common rough people, with their coarse faces and brutal gestures, become quite different when she is on the stage.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
7  Then he rose from the table, lit a cigarette, and flung himself down on a luxuriously cushioned couch that stood facing the screen.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
8  As soon as he was alone, he lit a cigarette and began sketching upon a piece of paper, drawing first flowers and bits of architecture, and then human faces.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
9  When we meet--we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke's--we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
10  In a second he heard the click of a revolver, and saw the gleam of a polished barrel, pointing straight at his head, and the dusky form of a short, thick-set man facing him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
11  The young man was leaning against the mantelshelf, watching him with that strange expression that one sees on the faces of those who are absorbed in a play when some great artist is acting.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
12  A wet Sunday, an uncouth Christian in a mackintosh, a ring of sickly white faces under a broken roof of dripping umbrellas, and a wonderful phrase flung into the air by shrill hysterical lips--it was really very good in its way, quite a suggestion.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19