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1  The mask of youth had saved him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
2  It was like a placid mask of servility.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
3  In hypocrisy he had worn the mask of goodness.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20
4  His beauty had been to him but a mask, his youth but a mockery.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20
5  At least he would be alone when he looked upon the mask of his shame.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
6  When the blood crept from its face, and left behind a pallid mask of chalk with leaden eyes, he would keep the glamour of boyhood.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
7  The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
8  It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4