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1  They sit silently and watch her.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  After some time she became silent.
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3  The painter was silent and preoccupied.
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4  He laughed in answer, and the man was silent.
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5  She wept silently, and made no answer, but crept nearer.
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6  Men who talked grossly became silent when Dorian Gray entered the room.
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7  He pictured to himself with silent amusement the tedious luncheon that he had missed by staying so long with Basil Hallward.
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8  You had leaned over the still pool of some Greek woodland and seen in the water's silent silver the marvel of your own face.
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9  He looked down and saw the policeman going his rounds and flashing the long beam of his lantern on the doors of the silent houses.
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10  For a few moments he loitered upon the doorstep, looking round at the silent square, with its blank, close-shuttered windows and its staring blinds.
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11  Gradually the events of the preceding night crept with silent, blood-stained feet into his brain and reconstructed themselves there with terrible distinctness.
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12  Outside, there is the stirring of birds among the leaves, or the sound of men going forth to their work, or the sigh and sob of the wind coming down from the hills and wandering round the silent house, as though it feared to wake the sleepers and yet must needs call forth sleep from her purple cave.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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