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1  The whole thing is hideous and cruel.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
2  She is too wise or too cruel for that.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
3  The voice that spoke was cold and cruel.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
4  Don't be cruel to me, because I love you better than anything in the world.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
5  It had made him conscious how unjust, how cruel, he had been to Sibyl Vane.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
6  Yet it was watching him, with its beautiful marred face and its cruel smile.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
7  Perhaps, some day, the cruel look would have passed away from the scarlet sensitive mouth, and he might show to the world Basil Hallward's masterpiece.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
8  It was with an almost cruel joy--and perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place--that he used to read the latter part of the book, with its really tragic, if somewhat overemphasized, account of the sorrow and despair of one who had himself lost what in others, and the world, he had most dearly valued.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11