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1  Just the sort of life I would like to lead.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
2  You don't know what an existence they lead down there.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
3  The hand upon his shoulder weighed like a hand of lead.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
4  As a rule, people who act lead the most commonplace lives.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
5  I want you to lead such a life as will make the world respect you.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
6  I don't know what it was, but it had either prussic acid or white lead in it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
7  At the end of the room there was a little staircase, leading to a darkened chamber.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
8  The dead leaves that were blown against the leaded panes seemed to him like his own wasted resolutions and wild regrets.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
9  Time seemed to him to be crawling with feet of lead, while he by monstrous winds was being swept towards the jagged edge of some black cleft of precipice.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
10  Yes, it was better to let Lord Henry in, and to explain to him the new life he was going to lead, to quarrel with him if it became necessary to quarrel, to part if parting was inevitable.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
11  Some large blue china jars and parrot-tulips were ranged on the mantelshelf, and through the small leaded panes of the window streamed the apricot-coloured light of a summer day in London.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4