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1  He could easily burn them afterwards.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  His kiss burned again upon her mouth.
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3  Hectic spots of red burned on his cheeks.
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4  His face was flushed and his cheeks burning.
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5  He himself had burned what had been below-stairs.
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6  The smell of the singeing clothes and burning leather was horrible.
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7  His throat burned and his delicate hands twitched nervously together.
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8  Dorian Gray leaped to his feet, with flushed cheeks and burning eyes.
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9  He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions.
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10  I might mimic a passion that I do not feel, but I cannot mimic one that burns me like fire.
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11  And so he would now study perfumes and the secrets of their manufacture, distilling heavily scented oils and burning odorous gums from the East.
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12  He knew what was waiting for him there; saw it, indeed, and, shuddering, crushed with dank hands his burning lids as though he would have robbed the very brain of sight and driven the eyeballs back into their cave.
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13  In the huge gilt Venetian lantern, spoil of some Doge's barge, that hung from the ceiling of the great, oak-panelled hall of entrance, lights were still burning from three flickering jets: thin blue petals of flame they seemed, rimmed with white fire.
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14  He paid some attention to the management of his collieries in the Midland counties, excusing himself for this taint of industry on the ground that the one advantage of having coal was that it enabled a gentleman to afford the decency of burning wood on his own hearth.
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