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1  The tune had been haunting London for weeks past.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  It was always difficult to determine the age of a London building.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  Hours and hours I've spent pasting their bloody rot all over London.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  About twenty or thirty of them a week were falling on London at present.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  In general you could not assume that you were much safer in the country than in London.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  Here in London, the great mass of the people never had enough to eat from birth to death.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
7  Scattered about London there were just three other buildings of similar appearance and size.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  He tried to squeeze out some childhood memory that should tell him whether London had always been quite like this.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  This, he thought with a sort of vague distaste--this was London, chief city of Airstrip One, itself the third most populous of the provinces of Oceania.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  Already on the walk from the station the May sunshine had made him feel dirty and etiolated, a creature of indoors, with the sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  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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13  She obviously had a practical cunning which Winston lacked, and she seemed also to have an exhaustive knowledge of the countryside round London, stored away from innumerable community hikes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  He seemed to see a vision of London, vast and ruinous, city of a million dustbins, and mixed up with it was a picture of Mrs. Parsons, a woman with lined face and wispy hair, fiddling helplessly with a blocked waste-pipe.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  On impulse he had turned away from the bus-stop and wandered off into the labyrinth of London, first south, then east, then north again, losing himself among unknown streets and hardly bothering in which direction he was going.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  There was a vast amount of criminality in London, a whole world-within-a-world of thieves, bandits, prostitutes, drug-peddlers, and racketeers of every description; but since it all happened among the proles themselves, it was of no importance.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  His exploits had been gradually pushed backwards in time until already they extended into the fabulous world of the forties and the thirties, when the capitalists in their strange cylindrical hats still rode through the streets of London in great gleaming motor-cars or horse carriages with glass sides.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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