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1  As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
2  "For you I would throw over anybody, Duchess," said Lord Henry with a bow.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
3  There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
4  "Thanks, I won't have anything more," said the painter, taking his cap and coat off and throwing them on the bag that he had placed in the corner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
5  After about ten minutes he got up, and throwing on an elaborate dressing-gown of silk-embroidered cashmere wool, passed into the onyx-paved bathroom.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
6  Suddenly from a lumpy tussock of old grass some twenty yards in front of them, with black-tipped ears erect and long hinder limbs throwing it forward, started a hare.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
7  Once or twice every month during the winter, and on each Wednesday evening while the season lasted, he would throw open to the world his beautiful house and have the most celebrated musicians of the day to charm his guests with the wonders of their art.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11