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1  I am no more to you than a green bronze figure.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  Then he turned to the still figure in the chair.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  He was thick-set of figure, and his hands and feet were large and somewhat clumsy in movement.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  Romeo was a stout elderly gentleman, with corked eyebrows, a husky tragedy voice, and a figure like a beer-barrel.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  When he thought of her, it would be as a wonderful tragic figure sent on to the world's stage to show the supreme reality of love.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  Yes, there would be a day when his face would be wrinkled and wizen, his eyes dim and colourless, the grace of his figure broken and deformed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  The door opened quietly, and he went in without saying a word to the squat misshapen figure that flattened itself into the shadow as he passed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  The orphreys were divided into panels representing scenes from the life of the Virgin, and the coronation of the Virgin was figured in coloured silks upon the hood.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous and evil so full of subtlety.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  He was like one of those gracious figures in a pageant or a play, whose joys seem to be remote from one, but whose sorrows stir one's sense of beauty, and whose wounds are like red roses.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  Its curtains were of damask, with leafy wreaths and garlands, figured upon a gold and silver ground, and fringed along the edges with broideries of pearls, and it stood in a room hung with rows of the queen's devices in cut black velvet upon cloth of silver.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  He had chasubles, also, of amber-coloured silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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