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1  However, as I said before, if he is rich.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
2  London is very rich in curious effects of that kind.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
3  A look of pain came across him, and he flung the rich pall over the picture.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
4  She would pray for him, too, and in a few years he would come back quite rich and happy.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
5  The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift, and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
6  Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  He procured from Amsterdam three emeralds of extraordinary size and richness of colour, and had a turquoise de la vieille roche that was the envy of all the connoisseurs.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  He had heard of rich men who had been blackmailed all their lives by some servant who had read a letter, or overheard a conversation, or picked up a card with an address, or found beneath a pillow a withered flower or a shred of crumpled lace.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  It was clear to him that the experimental method was the only method by which one could arrive at any scientific analysis of the passions; and certainly Dorian Gray was a subject made to his hand, and seemed to promise rich and fruitful results.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  She had proved an excellent wife to one of our most tedious ambassadors, and having buried her husband properly in a marble mausoleum, which she had herself designed, and married off her daughters to some rich, rather elderly men, she devoted herself now to the pleasures of French fiction, French cookery, and French esprit when she could get it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15