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1  There is a luxury in self-reproach.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
2  Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
3  They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
4  Then he rose from the table, lit a cigarette, and flung himself down on a luxuriously cushioned couch that stood facing the screen.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
5  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
6  One afternoon, a month later, Dorian Gray was reclining in a luxurious arm-chair, in the little library of Lord Henry's house in Mayfair.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
7  He turned them out and, having thrown his hat and cape on the table, passed through the library towards the door of his bedroom, a large octagonal chamber on the ground floor that, in his new-born feeling for luxury, he had just had decorated for himself and hung with some curious Renaissance tapestries that had been discovered stored in a disused attic at Selby Royal.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
8  Sometimes when he was down at his great house in Nottinghamshire, entertaining the fashionable young men of his own rank who were his chief companions, and astounding the county by the wanton luxury and gorgeous splendour of his mode of life, he would suddenly leave his guests and rush back to town to see that the door had not been tampered with and that the picture was still there.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11