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1  He did not touch the diary during those days.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
2  There was still the cold touch of wire against his cheek.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
3  As soon as he touched her she seemed to wince and stiffen.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
4  Anyone under forty-five is perfectly capable of touching his toes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
5  As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  Except where it touched upon her own life she had no interest in Party doctrine.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
7  It was filled with some kind of heavy, sand-like stuff which yielded wherever you touched it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
8  But she only questioned the teachings of the Party when they in some way touched upon her own life.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
9  It was a physical problem that had to be solved: how to get in touch with the girl and arrange a meeting.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
10  In the past, also, war was one of the main instruments by which human societies were kept in touch with physical reality.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
11  Her lips were deeply reddened, her cheeks rouged, her nose powdered; there was even a touch of something under the eyes to make them brighter.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
12  Then, as though touching her waist had reminded her of something, she felt in the pocket of her overalls and produced a small slab of chocolate.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
13  He confessed that for years he had been in personal touch with Goldstein and had been a member of an underground organization which had included almost every human being he had ever known.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  That's better, comrade, that's MUCH better, she added encouragingly as Winston, with a violent lunge, succeeded in touching his toes with knees unbent, for the first time in several years.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  Solitude and safety were physical sensations, mixed up somehow with the tiredness of his body, the softness of the chair, the touch of the faint breeze from the window that played upon his cheek.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  She described to him, almost as though she had seen or felt it, the stiffening of Katharine's body as soon as he touched her, the way in which she still seemed to be pushing him from her with all her strength, even when her arms were clasped tightly round him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  A low-ceilinged, crowded room, its walls grimy from the contact of innumerable bodies; battered metal tables and chairs, placed so close together that you sat with elbows touching; bent spoons, dented trays, coarse white mugs; all surfaces greasy, grime in every crack; and a sourish, composite smell of bad gin and bad coffee and metallic stew and dirty clothes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
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