AS in Classic Quotes

1  As they halted he turned and faced Syme again.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

2  As soon as he touched her she seemed to wince and stiffen.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6

3  As he put his hand to the door-knob Winston saw that he had left the diary open on the table.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

4  As usual, the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed on to the screen.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

5  As though in confirmation of this, a trumpet call floated from the telescreen just above their heads.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

6  As for the third message, it referred to a very simple error which could be set right in a couple of minutes.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

7  As soon as he saw what the photograph was, and what it meant, he had covered it up with another sheet of paper.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

8  As it happened, the Eurasian Higher Command had launched its offensive in South India and left North Africa alone.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

9  As usual, there was no definite rule against talking to proles and frequenting their pubs, but it was far too unusual an action to pass unnoticed.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

10  As Winston stood watching, it occurred to him that the old man, who must be eighty at the least, had already been middle-aged when the Revolution happened.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

11  As he watched the eyeless face with the jaw moving rapidly up and down, Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

12  As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of 'The Times' and pushed them into the pneumatic tube.'

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

13  As Syme had done earlier Winston had taken up his spoon and was dabbling in the pale-coloured gravy that dribbled across the table, drawing a long streak of it out into a pattern.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

14  As often happened, they had vanished for a year or more, so that one did not know whether they were alive or dead, and then had suddenly been brought forth to incriminate themselves in the usual way.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

15  As compared with last year there was more food, more clothes, more houses, more furniture, more cooking-pots, more fuel, more ships, more helicopters, more books, more babies--more of everything except disease, crime, and insanity.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

16  As he mechanically shot his arms back and forth, wearing on his face the look of grim enjoyment which was considered proper during the Physical Jerks, he was struggling to think his way backward into the dim period of his early childhood.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

17  As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of 'The Times' had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead.'

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4