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1  The curves of her throat were the curves of a white lily.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
2  His throat burned and his delicate hands twitched nervously together.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
3  She clenched her hands together, and her voice seemed to catch in her throat.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
4  She has been innocent, and the black hands of jealousy have crushed her reedlike throat.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
5  It was a lovely night, so warm that he threw his coat over his arm and did not even put his silk scarf round his throat.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20
6  So I have murdered Sibyl Vane," said Dorian Gray, half to himself, "murdered her as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
7  There would be the wrinkled throat, the cold, blue-veined hands, the twisted body, that he remembered in the grandfather who had been so stern to him in his boyhood.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
8  As midnight was striking bronze blows upon the dusky air, Dorian Gray, dressed commonly, and with a muffler wrapped round his throat, crept quietly out of his house.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
9  The sodden eyes had kept something of the loveliness of their blue, the noble curves had not yet completely passed away from chiselled nostrils and from plastic throat.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13