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1  The moment was lost in vulgar details.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  It seemed to me to have lost something.
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3  We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
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4  Now, Alan, there is not a moment to be lost.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
5  It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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6  Once the man lost his way and had to drive back half a mile.
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7  But I seem to have lost the passion and forgotten the desire.
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8  It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
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9  Even the common uneducated audience of the pit and gallery lost their interest in the play.
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10  The man had to touch him twice on the shoulder before he woke, and as he opened his eyes a faint smile passed across his lips, as though he had been lost in some delightful dream.
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11  He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.
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12  It was with an almost cruel joy--and perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place--that he used to read the latter part of the book, with its really tragic, if somewhat overemphasized, account of the sorrow and despair of one who had himself lost what in others, and the world, he had most dearly valued.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11