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1  But there would be no public lavatories in a quarter like this.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
2  He was in the public dock, confessing everything, implicating everybody.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
3  Before they exposed their victims to public trial, they deliberately set themselves to destroy their dignity.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
4  That was to be expected, since it was unusual for political offenders to be put on trial or even publicly denounced.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
5  It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
6  The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
7  In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
8  The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
9  He confessed to the assassination of eminent Party members, the distribution of seditious pamphlets, embezzlement of public funds, sale of military secrets, sabotage of every kind.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
10  Factories, mines, land, houses, transport--everything had been taken away from them: and since these things were no longer private property, it followed that they must be public property.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
11  The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
12  Goldstein had fled and was hiding no one knew where, and of the others, a few had simply disappeared, while the majority had been executed after spectacular public trials at which they made confession of their crimes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
13  Very occasionally some person whom you had believed dead long since would make a ghostly reappearance at some public trial where he would implicate hundreds of others by his testimony before vanishing, this time for ever.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
14  They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
15  The great purges involving thousands of people, with public trials of traitors and thought-criminals who made abject confession of their crimes and were afterwards executed, were special show-pieces not occurring oftener than once in a couple of years.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
16  The name of every organization, or body of people, or doctrine, or country, or institution, or public building, was invariably cut down into the familiar shape; that is, a single easily pronounced word with the smallest number of syllables that would preserve the original derivation.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX