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1  I am no more to you than a green bronze figure.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
2  There were large green rosettes upon her little pointed shoes.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
3  Inside was a green paste, waxy in lustre, the odour curiously heavy and persistent.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
4  Crowned with heavy lotus-blossoms you had sat on the prow of Adrian's barge, gazing across the green turbid Nile.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
5  The lad flushed up and, going to the window, looked out for a few moments on the green, flickering, sun-lashed garden.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
6  In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
7  At the end of the hall hung a tattered green curtain that swayed and shook in the gusty wind which had followed him in from the street.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
8  Old brocades, green bronzes, lacquer-work, carved ivories, exquisite surroundings, luxury, pomp--there is much to be got from all these.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
9  There was a rustle of chirruping sparrows in the green lacquer leaves of the ivy, and the blue cloud-shadows chased themselves across the grass like swallows.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
10  She wore a moss-coloured velvet jerkin with cinnamon sleeves, slim, brown, cross-gartered hose, a dainty little green cap with a hawk's feather caught in a jewel, and a hooded cloak lined with dull red.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
11  Another cope was of green velvet, embroidered with heart-shaped groups of acanthus-leaves, from which spread long-stemmed white blossoms, the details of which were picked out with silver thread and coloured crystals.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11