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1  Suddenly the man drew up with a jerk at the top of a dark lane.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  Her hair clustered round her face like dark leaves round a pale rose.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  Except for a light in one of the top windows, the house was all dark.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  A dog barked as they went by, and far away in the darkness some wandering sea-gull screamed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  The darkness lifted, and, flushed with faint fires, the sky hollowed itself into a perfect pearl.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  Most of the windows were dark, but now and then fantastic shadows were silhouetted against some lamplit blind.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  For a few seconds he stood bending over the balustrade and peering down into the black seething well of darkness.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  The floor was covered with ochre-coloured sawdust, trampled here and there into mud, and stained with dark rings of spilled liquor.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  "I am charmed, my love, quite charmed," said Lord Henry, elevating his dark, crescent-shaped eyebrows and looking at them both with an amused smile.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  In a few moments, Alan Campbell walked in, looking very stern and rather pale, his pallor being intensified by his coal-black hair and dark eyebrows.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly incrusted with nacre, a present from Lady Radley, his guardian's wife, a pretty professional invalid who had spent the preceding winter in Cairo, was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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