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1  Julia woke at the sound, stretched herself luxuriously, and got out of bed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
2  If he could have moved he would have stretched out a hand and laid it on O'Brien's arm.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
3  If there was any relief, it was in his work, in which he could sometimes forget himself for ten minutes at a stretch.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
4  It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
5  That was in another hiding-place known to Julia, the belfry of a ruinous church in an almost-deserted stretch of country where an atomic bomb had fallen thirty years earlier.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
6  The mystical reverence that he felt for her was somehow mixed up with the aspect of the pale, cloudless sky, stretching away behind the chimney-pots into interminable distance.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
7  The whole process seemed to stretch out over a long, indefinite time--weeks, possibly--and the intervals between the sessions might sometimes have been days, sometimes only an hour or two.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
8  Socialism, a theory which appeared in the early nineteenth century and was the last link in a chain of thought stretching back to the slave rebellions of antiquity, was still deeply infected by the Utopianism of past ages.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
9  His questioners now were not ruffians in black uniforms but Party intellectuals, little rotund men with quick movements and flashing spectacles, who worked on him in relays over periods which lasted--he thought, he could not be sure--ten or twelve hours at a stretch.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2