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1  At present you are a perfect type.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
2  It can be poisoned, or made perfect.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
3  Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  "Narborough wasn't perfect," cried the old lady.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
5  It posed the lad, made him more perfect, as it were.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
6  A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
7  The next time he calls, you will be perfectly cold and indifferent.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
8  Her name was Victoria, and she had a perfect mania for going to church.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
9  You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  But there is no doubt that the young man in question is a perfect gentleman.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
11  It seemed to me that all my life had been narrowed to one perfect point of rose-coloured joy.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
12  As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  The darkness lifted, and, flushed with faint fires, the sky hollowed itself into a perfect pearl.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
14  Hallward painted away with that marvellous bold touch of his, that had the true refinement and perfect delicacy that in art, at any rate comes only from strength.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  His own neighbour was Mrs. Vandeleur, one of his aunt's oldest friends, a perfect saint amongst women, but so dreadfully dowdy that she reminded one of a badly bound hymn-book.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  I remember her bringing me up to a truculent and red-faced old gentleman covered all over with orders and ribbons, and hissing into my ear, in a tragic whisper which must have been perfectly audible to everybody in the room, the most astounding details.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
17  Indeed, there were many, especially among the very young men, who saw, or fancied that they saw, in Dorian Gray the true realization of a type of which they had often dreamed in Eton or Oxford days, a type that was to combine something of the real culture of the scholar with all the grace and distinction and perfect manner of a citizen of the world.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
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