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1  Its gold would wither into grey.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  The scarlet would pass away from his lips and the gold steal from his hair.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  The favourites of James I wore ear-rings of emeralds set in gold filigrane.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  The sunset had smitten into scarlet gold the upper windows of the houses opposite.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  I want to place her on a pedestal of gold and to see the world worship the woman who is mine.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  He loved the red gold of the sunstone, and the moonstone's pearly whiteness, and the broken rainbow of the milky opal.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  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
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8  Over the gable were "two golden apples, in which were two carbuncles," so that the gold might shine by day and the carbuncles by night.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  Edward II gave to Piers Gaveston a suit of red-gold armour studded with jacinths, a collar of gold roses set with turquoise-stones, and a skull-cap parseme with pearls.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  His eye fell on a large, purple satin coverlet heavily embroidered with gold, a splendid piece of late seventeenth-century Venetian work that his grandfather had found in a convent near Bologna.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  Before a week was over he was to come across a large nugget of pure gold, the largest nugget that had ever been discovered, and bring it down to the coast in a waggon guarded by six mounted policemen.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  When the Huns lured the king into the great pit, he flung it away--Procopius tells the story--nor was it ever found again, though the Emperor Anastasius offered five hundred-weight of gold pieces for it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  When the Duke de Valentinois, son of Alexander VI, visited Louis XII of France, his horse was loaded with gold leaves, according to Brantome, and his cap had double rows of rubies that threw out a great light.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  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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16  She was thinking of Prince Charming, and, that she might think of him all the more, she did not talk of him, but prattled on about the ship in which Jim was going to sail, about the gold he was certain to find, about the wonderful heiress whose life he was to save from the wicked, red-shirted bushrangers.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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17  His little dinners, in the settling of which Lord Henry always assisted him, were noted as much for the careful selection and placing of those invited, as for the exquisite taste shown in the decoration of the table, with its subtle symphonic arrangements of exotic flowers, and embroidered cloths, and antique plate of gold and silver.
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