" The character of James Vane was also introduced, which helped to elaborate upon Sibyl Vane's character and background ; the addition of the character helped to emphasise and foreshadow Dorian's selfish ways, as James sees through Dorian's character, and guesses upon his future dishonourable actions ( the inclusion of James Vane's sub-plot also gives the novel a more typically Victorian tinge, part of Wilde's attempts to decrease the controversy surrounding the book ).

Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art.

Dorian's wish is fulfiled, and when he subsequently pursues a life of debauchery, the portrait serves as a reminder of the effect each act has upon his soul, with each sin displayed as a disfigurement of his form, or through a sign of aging.

He takes Basil to the portrait, which is as hideous as Dorian's sins.

* Lord Henry " Harry " Wotton – an imperious and decadent dandy who is a friend to Basil initially, but later becomes more intrigued with Dorian's beauty.

He is extremely protective of his sister, especially as their mother cares only for Dorian's money.

This duplicity and indulgence is most evident in Dorian's visit to the opium dens of London.

In killing Basil, the narrator even writes the scene to demonstrate Dorian's perception that it is the knife that commits the murder, leaving Dorian himself, again, blameless.

Dorian's portrait is the means by which other individuals, such as his friend Basil, may see Dorian's distorted soul.

Introduced in the fourth series, Slave was built and programmed by Dorian and is the master computer of Dorian's ship, ' Scorpio '.

Originally believed to be Dorian's uncle, he is later revealed to be the young man's father.

On April 23, 1957, Dorian's 40th birthday, de Portago told Dorian that he was supposedly finally divorcing Carroll so they could be legally married.

The servants find Dorian's body, stabbed in the heart and suddenly aged, withered and horrible.

* Alan Campbell – a chemist and one-time friend of Dorian ; he ended their friendship when Dorian's reputation began to come into question.

Wilde highlights Dorian's pleasure of living a double life.

Mike had met Dorian Yates in the 1980s and made an impression on Dorian's budding body building career.

* Dorian's, Mexican Department stores present only in Mexico and El Salvador.

There are also many discount department stores such as Conway which includes a furniture and decoration department named Conway Design, La Onda, Dorian's, Saks, Madison Store and El Titan among others.

As shown by an accompanying video released through YouTube on Fairwood Studios ' channel, the vocal player sings along with Leonard's lead, the guitarist strums to Brown and Dorian's backup vocals, the bass guitar player follows Baldi's bass vocals, and the player on the drums uses Thacher's vocal percussion as their notes.

The family moved to Jackson Heights, Queens soon after Dorian's birth and later to Metuchen, N. J.

Dorian's parents thought modeling was not respectable, so Dorian Leigh Parker used only her first and middle name during her career.

Dorian instantly became busy with modeling assignments, landing on the covers of major magazines such as " Vogue ," " Harper's Bazaar ," " Paris Match ," " LIFE ," and " Elle ," Because of her schedule, Dorian's two children were sent to live with her parents in Florida, while she was based in New York and traveling to Europe.

Dorian's first ad was for " Fatal Apple.

Dorian's bridemaids were her teen sister " Suzy Parker " and Suzy's teen model friend Carmen Dell ' Orefice.

Dorian's two older children, who were being raised by her parents in Florida, came to live with the couple in Pennsylvania.

Ford asked how Dorian's modeling agency worked, and then decided to start an agency of her own.

Over the next 18 years, he experiments with every vice, mostly under the influence of a " poisonous " French decadence novel, a present from Lord Henry.

At the 1925 Geneva Conference for the Supervision of the International Traffic in Arms the French suggested a protocol for non-use of poisonous gases.

During World War I, the French army reportedly – according to Fritz Haber, the German chemist who helped develop poisonous gas for German Army use ( see below ) – used 2000 tons of prussic acid as a poison gas agent in artillery ammunition.

A French chef declares that he will do the deed, by feeding Homer a poisonous éclair at an upcoming food festival.

It is widely believed that À rebours is the " poisonous French novel " that leads to the downfall of Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

In the novel James has only a few friends-Roger Peter Davies, whom he nicknames " Jolly Roger " and later names his ship after ; and his pet Electra, a fatally poisonous spider.

Shuriken, especially hira-shuriken, were also used in other novel ways — they might be embedded in the ground, injuring those who stepped on them ( similar to a caltrop or tetsubishi ), wrapped in fuse to be lit and thrown to cause fire, or wrapped in a cloth soaked in poison and lit to cover an area with a cloud of poisonous smoke.

The concept of the Zygon " sting ", poisonous barbs protruding from their hands, originates from this novel ; this conveniently explains why, in their television appearance, the Zygons were apparently able to inflict pain on other beings with a mere touch.

Ironically, he acquires three of the most powerful skills in the novel and becomes immune to poison after consuming the Zhuha, a poisonous toad known as the " king of all venomous creatures ".

: This story occurs some time after the events of the kinetic novel, as human civilization struggles in a losing battle against the poisonous rain.

The black smoke, or black powder is a fictional poisonous gas in H. G. Wells ' science fiction novel The War of the Worlds.

pass by ; I have tried this way ; it leads at last into poisonous wildernesses.

Of special concern is the growth of bacteria such as Clostridium botulinum which generate poisonous products.

In some salamanders, the skin is poisonous.

The frog Allobates zaparo is not poisonous but mimics the appearance of other toxic species in its locality, a strategy that may deceive predators.

Arsenic is notoriously poisonous to multicellular life, although a few species of bacteria are able to use arsenic compounds as respiratory metabolites.

Bt corn is a variant of maize, genetically altered to express the bacterial Bt toxin, which is poisonous to insect pests.

An intermediate in the combustion of carbon and hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, is of special importance because it is a poisonous gas, but also economically useful for the production of syngas.

Elemental chlorine is extremely dangerous and poisonous for all lifeforms.

A different, non-camouflage strategy is mimicry, where an animal boldly resembles another animal that is poisonous or distasteful: it is then easily seen, but avoided.

The blood of a slain dragon is depicted as either beneficent or as poisonous in medieval legend and literary fiction.

Kerosene is not usually used as fuel for indoor fire dancing, as it produces an unpleasant odor, which becomes poisonous in sufficient concentration.

Mountain laurel is poisonous to several different animals due to andromedotoxin and arbutin, including horses, goats, cattle, sheep, deer, and monkeys and humans.

Lead, at certain contact degrees, is a poisonous substance to animals as well as for human beings.

Derivative evidence is not subject to suppression under Miranda — fruit of poisonous tree doctrine may apply to Massiah violation.

However, no common word akin to Todesstuhl is used in German referring to mushrooms, poisonous or not.

However, delineation between edible and poisonous fungi is not clear-cut, so a " mushroom " may be edible, poisonous, or unpalatable.

The term " toadstool " is nowadays used in storytelling when referring to poisonous or suspect mushrooms.

More generally, and particularly with gilled mushrooms, separating edible from poisonous species requires meticulous attention to detail ; there is no single trait by which all toxic mushrooms can be identified, nor one by which all edible mushrooms can be identified.

For example, some prokaryotes use hydrogen sulfide as a nutrient, yet this gas is poisonous to animals.

Not all puffers are necessarily poisonous ; Takifugu oblongus, for example, is a fugu puffer that is not poisonous, and toxin level varies wildly even in fish that are.