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1  The people round began to gape.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  He threw himself into a chair and began to think.
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3  Basil Hallward leaped to his feet and began to applaud.
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4  They got restless, and began to talk loudly and to whistle.
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5  The band, such as it was, struck up a few bars of music, and the dance began.
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6  As he left the room, Lord Henry's heavy eyelids drooped, and he began to think.
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7  Then it began to scramble all over the oval stellated globe of the tiny blossoms.
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8  I began to wonder what on earth I should do when I caught sight of the play-bill.
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9  He held the door open for them, and they passed out into the hall and began the ascent.
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10  "When America was discovered," said the Radical member--and he began to give some wearisome facts.
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11  He thanked him, wondered why he refused to accept any money for them, and began to eat them listlessly.
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12  Two green-and-white butterflies fluttered past them, and in the pear-tree at the corner of the garden a thrush began to sing.
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13  The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife.
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14  A grasshopper began to chirrup by the wall, and like a blue thread a long thin dragon-fly floated past on its brown gauze wings.
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15  He began to wonder whether we could ever make psychology so absolute a science that each little spring of life would be revealed to us.
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16  And Lord Henry struck a light on a dainty silver case and began to smoke a cigarette with a self-conscious and satisfied air, as if he had summed up the world in a phrase.
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17  There was a dreadful orchestra, presided over by a young Hebrew who sat at a cracked piano, that nearly drove me away, but at last the drop-scene was drawn up and the play began.
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