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1  Only the Thought Police mattered.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
2  Only because I prefer a positive to a negative.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
3  Only the disciplined mind can see reality, Winston.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
4  Only by word of mouth, from mind to mind, could they pass on the secret.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
5  Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being non-existent persons.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
6  Only one thought stirred in his mind: that he must have been in this place longer than he had imagined.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
7  Only the Thought Police would read what he had written, before they wiped it out of existence and out of memory.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
8  Only five nights ago he had contemplated smashing her skull in with a cobblestone, but that was of no importance.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
9  Only when he chanced to put his hand on his bald scalp did he remember the seamed, ruined face that had looked back at him out of the mirror.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
10  Only on a small table in the corner was there a litter of odds and ends--lacquered snuffboxes, agate brooches, and the like--which looked as though they might include something interesting.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
11  Only a very few words were common to all lists, and there was no vocabulary expressing the function of Science as a habit of mind, or a method of thought, irrespective of its particular branches.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX