LIGHT in Classic Quotes

1  A hand fell lightly on his shoulder.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2

2  Light that seemed stronger than usual was falling on his face.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2

3  The lights would be switched off at the main at twenty-three thirty.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

4  He was strapped into a chair surrounded by dials, under dazzling lights.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2

5  In this place, he knew instinctively, the lights would never be turned out.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1

6  The proprietor had just lighted a hanging oil lamp which gave off an unclean but friendly smell.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

7  The sudden jerk out of sleep, the rough hand shaking your shoulder, the lights glaring in your eyes, the ring of hard faces round the bed.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

8  A yellow ray from the sinking sun fell across the foot of the bed and lighted up the fireplace, where the water in the pan was boiling fast.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4

9  It aroused in Winston dim memories of something seen long ago on a wall or a hoarding--a vast bottle composed of electric lights which seemed to move up and down and pour its contents into a glass.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8

10  They slapped his face, wrung his ears, pulled his hair, made him stand on one leg, refused him leave to urinate, shone glaring lights in his face until his eyes ran with water; but the aim of this was simply to humiliate him and destroy his power of arguing and reasoning.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2