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1 It made him a more interesting study.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4
2 He looked like a boy who had been tired out with play, or study.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 14
3 And so he would now study perfumes and the secrets of their manufacture, distilling heavily scented oils and burning odorous gums from the East.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11
4 On one occasion he took up the study of jewels, and appeared at a costume ball as Anne de Joyeuse, Admiral of France, in a dress covered with five hundred and sixty pearls.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11
5 He had not entered the place for more than four years--not, indeed, since he had used it first as a play-room when he was a child, and then as a study when he grew somewhat older.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 10
6 The flameless tapers stand where we had left them, and beside them lies the half-cut book that we had been studying, or the wired flower that we had worn at the ball, or the letter that we had been afraid to read, or that we had read too often.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11
7 The son, who had been his father's secretary, had resigned along with his chief, somewhat foolishly as was thought at the time, and on succeeding some months later to the title, had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3
8 Indeed, he was still devoted to the study of chemistry, and had a laboratory of his own in which he used to shut himself up all day long, greatly to the annoyance of his mother, who had set her heart on his standing for Parliament and had a vague idea that a chemist was a person who made up prescriptions.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 14