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1  A rising wind made some of the windows rattle.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
2  If the tapestry did but tremble in the wind, he shook.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
3  Some southern wind of passion swept over her and stirred the dainty folds of her dress.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
4  The wind had blown the fog away, and the sky was like a monstrous peacock's tail, starred with myriads of golden eyes.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
5  At the end of the hall hung a tattered green curtain that swayed and shook in the gusty wind which had followed him in from the street.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
6  The wind shook some blossoms from the trees, and the heavy lilac-blooms, with their clustering stars, moved to and fro in the languid air.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
7  As it was, our bonnets were so unbecoming, and the mills were so occupied in trying to raise the wind, that I never had even a flirtation with anybody.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
8  Time seemed to him to be crawling with feet of lead, while he by monstrous winds was being swept towards the jagged edge of some black cleft of precipice.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
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
10  Outside, there is the stirring of birds among the leaves, or the sound of men going forth to their work, or the sigh and sob of the wind coming down from the hills and wandering round the silent house, as though it feared to wake the sleepers and yet must needs call forth sleep from her purple cave.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11