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1  She had regained some of her colour, and appeared very much better.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  One tuft was of two colours, magenta and brick-red, apparently growing on the same root.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  The man's face, already very pale, turned a colour Winston would not have believed possible.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  Her face had turned a milky yellow colour against which her mouth stood out redder than ever.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  In the same instant it occurred to him that he did not know what colour the girl's eyes were.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  There was a peculiar softness, as of rainwater, in both the colour and the texture of the glass.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  His face, his movements, the shape of his hands, the colour of his hair--even his voice would be different.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  With just a few dabs of colour in the right places she had become not only very much prettier, but, above all, far more feminine.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  As she came nearer he saw that her right arm was in a sling, not noticeable at a distance because it was of the same colour as her overalls.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  Newspapers and history books were, of course, always coloured and biased, but falsification of the kind that is practised today would have been impossible.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  It is absolutely necessary to their structure that there should be no contact with foreigners, except, to a limited extent, with war prisoners and coloured slaves.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  He was writing the diary for O'Brien--TO O'Brien: it was like an interminable letter which no one would ever read, but which was addressed to a particular person and took its colour from that fact.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  But in addition there were great numbers of words which at first sight appeared to be mere abbreviations and which derived their ideological colour not from their meaning, but from their structure.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no colour in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  He remembered better the rackety, uneasy circumstances of the time: the periodical panics about air-raids and the sheltering in Tube stations, the piles of rubble everywhere, the unintelligible proclamations posted at street corners, the gangs of youths in shirts all the same colour, the enormous queues outside the bakeries, the intermittent machine-gun fire in the distance--above all, the fact that there was never enough to eat.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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