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1  The curves of her throat were the curves of a white lily.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
2  A faint smile curving that sullen mouth was all the echo she could win.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
3  A smile curved Lord Henry's lips, and he turned round and looked at Dorian.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
4  I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
5  Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
6  He could see no change, save that in the eyes there was a look of cunning and in the mouth the curved wrinkle of the hypocrite.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20
7  The sodden eyes had kept something of the loveliness of their blue, the noble curves had not yet completely passed away from chiselled nostrils and from plastic throat.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
8  It was a small Chinese box of black and gold-dust lacquer, elaborately wrought, the sides patterned with curved waves, and the silken cords hung with round crystals and tasselled in plaited metal threads.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15