11 uses
- "What nonsense, Dorian!" laughed his companion, and as the hare bounded into the thicket he fired.Chapter 18 (28% in)
- I am bound to state that she never told me he was good-looking.Chapter 1 (95% in)
- His own neighbour was Mrs. Vandeleur, one of his aunt's oldest friends, a perfect saint amongst women, but so dreadfully dowdy that she reminded one of a badly bound hymn-book.Chapter 3 (54% in)
- On a tiny satinwood table stood a statuette by Clodion, and beside it lay a copy of "Les Cent Nouvelles," bound for Margaret of Valois by Clovis Eve, and powdered with the gilt daisies that Queen had selected for her device.Chapter 4 (2% in)
- She is bound to him for three years—at least for two years and eight months—from the present time.Chapter 4 (71% in)
- I am bound to state that she ate an enormous dinner, so I did not feel any anxiety.Chapter 8 (64% in)
- On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly encrusted 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.Chapter 10 (69% in)
- He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.Chapter 11 (1% in)
- ...over with iridescent beetles' wings; the Dacca gauzes, that from their transparency are known in the East as "woven air," and "running water," and "evening dew"; strange figured cloths from Java; elaborate yellow Chinese hangings; books bound in tawny satins or fair blue silks, and wrought with fleurs de lys, birds, and images; veils of lacis worked in Hungary point; Sicilian brocades, and stiff Spanish velvets; Georgian work with its gilt coins, and Japanese Foukousas with...Chapter 11 (62% in)
- The binding was of citron-green leather, with a design of gilt trellis-work and dotted pomegranates.Chapter 14 (15% in)
- A red glare came from an outward-bound steamer that was coaling.Chapter 16 (30% in)
There are no more uses of "bound" in The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version.
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