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1  This bud of love by summer's ripening breath.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
2  "Days in summer, Basil, are apt to linger," murmured Lord Henry.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
3  And when winter came upon it, he would still be standing where spring trembles on the verge of summer.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
4  Summer followed summer, and the yellow jonquils bloomed and died many times, and nights of horror repeated the story of their shame, but he was unchanged.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
5  He seemed little more than a lad of twenty summers, hardly older, if older indeed at all, than his sister had been when they had parted so many years ago.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
6  Of course I go and stay with them every summer after I come from Homburg, but then an old woman like me must have fresh air sometimes, and besides, I really wake them up.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
7  He is some brainless beautiful creature who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
8  Some large blue china jars and parrot-tulips were ranged on the mantelshelf, and through the small leaded panes of the window streamed the apricot-coloured light of a summer day in London.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
9  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
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1