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1  The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
2  If Basil chooses to hide himself, it is no business of mine.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
3  It is simply disgraceful of your servant hiding my work like that.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  Her eyes caught the melody and echoed it in radiance, then closed for a moment, as though to hide their secret.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
5  His lips trembled, and rushing to the back of the box, he leaned up against the wall, hiding his face in his hands.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
6  Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
7  He shuddered, and for a moment he regretted that he had not told Basil the true reason why he had wished to hide the picture away.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
8  Now it was to hide something that had a corruption of its own, worse than the corruption of death itself--something that would breed horrors and yet would never die.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  He remembered that the night before he had forgotten, for the first time in his life, to hide the fatal canvas, and was about to rush forward, when he drew back with a shudder.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  "I am afraid it is rather heavy," murmured Dorian as he unlocked the door that opened into the room that was to keep for him the curious secret of his life and hide his soul from the eyes of men.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  In the long cedar chests that lined the west gallery of his house, he had stored away many rare and beautiful specimens of what is really the raiment of the Bride of Christ, who must wear purple and jewels and fine linen that she may hide the pallid macerated body that is worn by the suffering that she seeks for and wounded by self-inflicted pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11