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1  'It was a good hanging,' said Syme reminiscently.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  The howling stopped; the man had no breath left for anything except hanging on.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  They're disappointed because they couldn't go to see the hanging, that's what it is.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  The proprietor had just lighted a hanging oil lamp which gave off an unclean but friendly smell.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  She would be hanging about among the stalls, pretending to be in search of shoelaces or sewing-thread.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  Some Eurasian prisoners, guilty of war crimes, were to be hanged in the Park that evening, Winston remembered.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  With the feeling that he would be less conspicuous inside than hanging about on the pavement, he stepped through the doorway.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  Nor did one know what became of them, apart from the few who were hanged as war-criminals: the others simply vanished, presumably into forced-labour camps.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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