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1  He was facing her at several paces' distance.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
2  Somewhere in remote distance a rocket bomb thundered.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
3  The man sat down on the bench at a little distance from Winston.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
4  He followed irresolutely for a little distance, half a pace behind her.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
5  He looked thoughtfully into the distance, as though he were addressing an audience somewhere behind Winston's back.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
6  I am authorized to say that the action we are now reporting may well bring the war within measurable distance of its end.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
7  His eyes had a wide-open, staring look, as though he could not prevent himself from gazing at something in the middle distance.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
8  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
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
9  He was in the middle of a great empty plain, a flat desert drenched with sunlight, across which all sounds came to him out of immense distances.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
10  In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
11  Instead he looked into the middle distance and spoke in generalities, with so delicate an air as to give the impression that he had become partly invisible.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
12  The rocket bombs crashed oftener than ever, and sometimes in the far distance there were enormous explosions which no one could explain and about which there were wild rumours.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
13  The mystical reverence that he felt for her was somehow mixed up with the aspect of the pale, cloudless sky, stretching away behind the chimney-pots into interminable distance.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
14  It had all occurred inside the glass paperweight, but the surface of the glass was the dome of the sky, and inside the dome everything was flooded with clear soft light in which one could see into interminable distances.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
15  He could hear the woman singing and the scrape of her shoes on the flagstones, and the cries of the children in the street, and somewhere in the far distance a faint roar of traffic, and yet the room seemed curiously silent, thanks to the absence of a telescreen.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4