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1  He was heart-sick at leaving home.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  There were vine leaves in her hair.
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3  The sunlight slipped over the polished leaves.
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4  It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.
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5  You ask me why Berwick leaves a room when I enter it.
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6  Her hair clustered round her face like dark leaves round a pale rose.
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7  Then he took down the Blue Book from one of the shelves and began to turn over the leaves.
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8  I keep a diary of my life from day to day, and it never leaves the room in which it is written.
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9  He was bareheaded, and the leaves had tossed his rebellious curls and tangled all their gilded threads.
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10  He had that dislike of being stared at, which comes on geniuses late in life and never leaves the commonplace.
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11  The dead leaves that were blown against the leaded panes seemed to him like his own wasted resolutions and wild regrets.
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12  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.
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13  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.
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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.
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15  "I dare say, my dear," said Lord Henry, shutting the door behind her as, looking like a bird of paradise that had been out all night in the rain, she flitted out of the room, leaving a faint odour of frangipanni.
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16  He went towards the little, pearl-coloured octagonal stand that had always looked to him like the work of some strange Egyptian bees that wrought in silver, and taking up the volume, flung himself into an arm-chair and began to turn over the leaves.
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17  Outside, there is the stirring of birds among the leaves, or the sound of men going forth to their work, or the sigh and sob of the wind coming down from the hills and wandering round the silent house, as though it feared to wake the sleepers and yet must needs call forth sleep from her purple cave.
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