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1  He bores me dreadfully, almost as much as he bores her.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
2  The morse bore a seraph's head in gold-thread raised work.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
3  "It is such a bore putting on one's dress-clothes," muttered Hallward.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
4  The love that he bore him--for it was really love--had nothing in it that was not noble and intellectual.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
5  It was almost nine o'clock before he reached the club, where he found Lord Henry sitting alone, in the morning-room, looking very much bored.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
6  It was some consolation that Harry was to be there, and when the door opened and he heard his slow musical voice lending charm to some insincere apology, he ceased to feel bored.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
7  My dear Dorian," answered Lord Henry, taking a cigarette from his case and producing a gold-latten matchbox, "the only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
8  To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11