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1  I must confess that most of them are extremely pretty.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
2  Her feet are very pretty, but they are not feet of clay.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
3  They say he has sold himself to the devil for a pretty face.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
4  "Royalties may not abdicate," fell as a warning from pretty lips.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17
5  I have watched her wandering through the forest of Arden, disguised as a pretty boy in hose and doublet and dainty cap.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
6  A week later Dorian Gray was sitting in the conservatory at Selby Royal, talking to the pretty Duchess of Monmouth, who with her husband, a jaded-looking man of sixty, was amongst his guests.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17
7  On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly incrusted with nacre, a present from Lady Radley, his guardian's wife, a pretty professional invalid who had spent the preceding winter in Cairo, was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10