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1  The moon hung low in the sky like a yellow skull.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
2  The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
3  His eye fell on the yellow book that Lord Henry had sent him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
4  I am only ten years older than you are, and I am wrinkled, and worn, and yellow.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
5  Delicate lace ruffles fell over the lean yellow hands that were so overladen with rings.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
6  "Yes, of course," answered Lord Henry, sinking into a chair and slowly pulling off his yellow gloves.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
7  The heat was terribly oppressive, and the huge sunlight flamed like a monstrous dahlia with petals of yellow fire.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
8  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
9  He turned and hurried out, just conscious that the dead man had been thrust back into the chair and that Campbell was gazing into a glistening yellow face.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
10  When he entered, a young man with smooth yellow hair, who was bending over a lamp lighting a long thin pipe, looked up at him and nodded in a hesitating manner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
11  A long line of boys carrying crates of striped tulips, and of yellow and red roses, defiled in front of him, threading their way through the huge, jade-green piles of vegetables.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
12  Well, I am not like that young man you told me of when we were down at Marlow together, the young man who used to say that yellow satin could console one for all the miseries of life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
13  On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly incrusted with nacre, a present from Lady Radley, his guardian's wife, a pretty professional invalid who had spent the preceding winter in Cairo, was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
14  He had chasubles, also, of amber-coloured silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11