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1  They get all their dresses in Paris.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  She laughed at him in her loose Bacchante dress.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  And now you had better dress and drive down to the club.
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4  It is rather late, and, as you have to dress, you had better lose no time.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  As he strolled home, smoking his cigarette, two young men in evening dress passed him.
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7  Some southern wind of passion swept over her and stirred the dainty folds of her dress.
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8  Through the crowd of ungainly, shabbily dressed actors, Sibyl Vane moved like a creature from a finer world.
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9  She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest.
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10  The scene was the hall of Capulet's house, and Romeo in his pilgrim's dress had entered with Mercutio and his other friends.
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11  "My son, don't say such dreadful things," murmured Mrs. Vane, taking up a tawdry theatrical dress, with a sigh, and beginning to patch it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  After a few moments, in her black silk dress, with old-fashioned thread mittens on her wrinkled hands, Mrs. Leaf bustled into the library.
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13  While Lord Henry sat dreaming on these things, a knock came to the door, and his valet entered and reminded him it was time to dress for dinner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  On one occasion he took up the study of jewels, and appeared at a costume ball as Anne de Joyeuse, Admiral of France, in a dress covered with five hundred and sixty pearls.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  One day, a fatal day I sometimes think, I determined to paint a wonderful portrait of you as you actually are, not in the costume of dead ages, but in your own dress and in your own time.
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16  After I left you yesterday evening, Harry, I dressed, had some dinner at that little Italian restaurant in Rupert Street you introduced me to, and went down at eight o'clock to the theatre.
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17  Then, after his valet had reminded him several times of the lateness of the hour, he got up, and going into the next room, placed the book on the little Florentine table that always stood at his bedside and began to dress for dinner.
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