MOMENT in Classic Quotes

1  The next moment he started violently.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  For a moment he was seized by a kind of hysteria.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  At this moment, however, even the monologue had dried up.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  He would ravish her and cut her throat at the moment of climax.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  And it was exactly at this moment that the significant thing happened--if, indeed, it did happen.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  The next moment, however, the burning in his belly died down and the world began to look more cheerful.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  In a lucid moment Winston found that he was shouting with the others and kicking his heel violently against the rung of his chair.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  The next moment a hideous, grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  Once when they passed in the corridor she gave him a quick sidelong glance which seemed to pierce right into him and for a moment had filled him with black terror.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  At this moment O'Brien glanced at his wrist-watch, saw that it was nearly eleven hundred, and evidently decided to stay in the Records Department until the Two Minutes Hate was over.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  It was absurd, since the writing of those particular words was not more dangerous than the initial act of opening the diary, but for a moment he was tempted to tear out the spoiled pages and abandon the enterprise altogether.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  But in the same moment, drawing a deep sigh of relief from everybody, the hostile figure melted into the face of Big Brother, black-haired, black-moustachio'd, full of power and mysterious calm, and so vast that it almost filled up the screen.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  There was the usual boiled-cabbage smell, common to the whole building, but it was shot through by a sharper reek of sweat, which--one knew this at the first sniff, though it was hard to say how--was the sweat of some person not present at the moment.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  Thus, at one moment Winston's hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police; and at such moments his heart went out to the lonely, derided heretic on the screen, sole guardian of truth and sanity in a world of lies.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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