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1  She had certainly turned very pale.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
2  Nevertheless Syme immediately detected a certain lack of enthusiasm.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
3  I was talking recently to a friend of yours who is certainly an expert.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6
4  In spite of his formidable appearance he had a certain charm of manner.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  He thought it must have been at some time in the sixties, but it was impossible to be certain.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
6  There was a certain fitness in this, since her own husband had been vaporized a couple of years earlier.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
7  'The Ministry of Plenty's certainly done a good job this year,' he said with a knowing shake of his head.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
8  It is learned by the majority of Party members, and certainly by all who are intelligent as well as orthodox.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
9  In his vague way Ampleforth was attached to Winston, and would certainly sit down at his table if he caught sight of him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
10  Certain of our present-day adjectives, such as GOOD, STRONG, BIG, BLACK, SOFT, were retained, but their total number was very small.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  The landscape that he was looking at recurred so often in his dreams that he was never fully certain whether or not he had seen it in the real world.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
12  Suddenly there sprang into his mind, ready made as it were, the image of a certain Comrade Ogilvy, who had recently died in battle, in heroic circumstances.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  She was carrying his baby sister--or perhaps it was only a bundle of blankets that she was carrying: he was not certain whether his sister had been born then.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
14  It had been on the tip of his tongue to say 'Except the proles,' but he checked himself, not feeling fully certain that this remark was not in some way unorthodox.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  Airstrip One, for instance, had not been so called in those days: it had been called England or Britain, though London, he felt fairly certain, had always been called London.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  A certain Comrade Withers, a prominent member of the Inner Party, had been singled out for special mention and awarded a decoration, the Order of Conspicuous Merit, Second Class.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices, always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage, have been developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped, and the ravages of the atomic war of the nineteen-fifties have never been fully repaired.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
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