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1  A thousand rocket bombs would not batter it down.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  A rocket bomb must have dropped quite near at hand.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  Somewhere in remote distance a rocket bomb thundered.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  Somewhere far away a rocket bomb exploded with a dull, reverberating roar.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  'Steamer' was a nickname which, for some reason, the proles applied to rocket bombs.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  As though to harmonize with the general mood, the rocket bombs had been killing larger numbers of people than usual.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  They seemed to possess some kind of instinct which told them several seconds in advance when a rocket was coming, although the rockets supposedly travelled faster than sound.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  They seemed to possess some kind of instinct which told them several seconds in advance when a rocket was coming, although the rockets supposedly travelled faster than sound.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  The rocket bombs crashed oftener than ever, and sometimes in the far distance there were enormous explosions which no one could explain and about which there were wild rumours.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  It was a museum used for propaganda displays of various kinds--scale models of rocket bombs and Floating Fortresses, waxwork tableaux illustrating enemy atrocities, and the like.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  In the centres of civilization war means no more than a continuous shortage of consumption goods, and the occasional crash of a rocket bomb which may cause a few scores of deaths.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  During this time rockets loaded with atomic bombs can be assembled at all the strategic spots; finally they will all be fired simultaneously, with effects so devastating as to make retaliation impossible.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  He remembered how once, after the explosion of a rocket bomb, he had helped to drag a corpse out of some ruins, and had been astonished not only by the incredible weight of the thing, but by its rigidity and awkwardness to handle, which made it seem more like stone than flesh.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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