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1  Black, two straps, very shabby--good.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
2  'Black market,' she said indifferently.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
3  Already the black instant of panic was half-forgotten.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
4  His hair was almost white, but his eyebrows were bushy and still black.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
5  Seen from the top the stuff looked almost black, but in the decanter it gleamed like a ruby.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
6  O'Brien was strolling up and down, one hand in the pocket of his black overalls, the other holding his cigarette.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
7  A black plume of smoke hung in the sky, and below it a cloud of plaster dust in which a crowd was already forming around the ruins.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
8  A momentary hush passed over the group of people round the chairs as they saw the black overalls of an Inner Party member approaching.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
9  Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
10  At the same instant a man in a concertina-like black suit, who had emerged from a side alley, ran towards Winston, pointing excitedly to the sky.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
11  The old man had on a decent dark suit and a black cloth cap pushed back from very white hair: his face was scarlet and his eyes were blue and full of tears.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  You can see that he is dressed in a long black coat which was called a frock coat, and a queer, shiny hat shaped like a stovepipe, which was called a top hat.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
13  It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
14  Once when they passed in the corridor she gave him a quick sidelong glance which seemed to pierce right into him and for a moment had filled him with black terror.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  Or to bang his head against the wall, to kick over the table, and hurl the inkpot through the window--to do any violent or noisy or painful thing that might black out the memory that was tormenting him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  His spectacles, his gentle, fussy movements, and the fact that he was wearing an aged jacket of black velvet, gave him a vague air of intellectuality, as though he had been some kind of literary man, or perhaps a musician.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
17  As soon as they arrived they would sprinkle everything with pepper bought on the black market, tear off their clothes, and make love with sweating bodies, then fall asleep and wake to find that the bugs had rallied and were massing for the counter-attack.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
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