All 3 Uses of
sear
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly.†
Chpt 2 *
- He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain young, and the portrait grow old; that his own beauty might be untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.†
Chpt 5
- He would examine with minute care, and often with a monstrous and terrible delight, the hideous lines that seared the wrinkling forehead or crawled around the heavy sensual mouth, wondering sometimes which were the more horrible, the signs of sin or the signs of age.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(sear) burn -- especially the surface with intense heat
or:
brown meat with a hot flame
or:
burn something into memory -- especially something painful