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1  It can be poisoned, or made perfect.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
2  Yet you poisoned me with a book once.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  Dorian Gray had been poisoned by a book.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  There was an exquisite poison in the air.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  The paints I used had some wretched mineral poison in them.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
6  As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  I have seen her die in the gloom of an Italian tomb, sucking the poison from her lover's lips.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  Leonardus Camillus had seen a white stone taken from the brain of a newly killed toad, that was a certain antidote against poison.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  Basil would have helped him to resist Lord Henry's influence, and the still more poisonous influences that came from his own temperament.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  The vicious cruelty that marred the fine lines of the mouth had, no doubt, appeared at the very moment that the girl had drunk the poison, whatever it was.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  He would not see Lord Henry any more--would not, at any rate, listen to those subtle poisonous theories that in Basil Hallward's garden had first stirred within him the passion for impossible things.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7