WINDOW in Classic Quotes

1  There were no windows in it at all.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

2  In the Ministry of Love there were no windows.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1

3  It was the police patrol, snooping into people's windows.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

4  Winston walked over to the window, keeping his back to the telescreen.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

5  Perhaps a quarter of the windows in the street were broken and boarded up.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

6  When he stood up he found that he was covered with fragments of glass from the nearest window.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

7  It was a steel engraving of an oval building with rectangular windows, and a small tower in front.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

8  There was a deal table under the window where he and the old man could talk without fear of being overheard.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

9  Under the window, and occupying nearly a quarter of the room, was an enormous bed with the mattress still on it.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

10  Throughout that time he had been intending to alter the name over the window, but had never quite got to the point of doing it.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

11  Instead of being placed, as was normal, in the end wall, where it could command the whole room, it was in the longer wall, opposite the window.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

12  On the opposite side of the alley there was a dingy little pub whose windows appeared to be frosted over but in reality were merely coated with dust.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

13  For perhaps five seconds exaltation made him careless, and he stepped out on to the pavement without so much as a preliminary glance through the window.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

14  He moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the party.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

15  The sun had shifted round, and the myriad windows of the Ministry of Truth, with the light no longer shining on them, looked grim as the loopholes of a fortress.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

16  In the window there were trays of nuts and bolts, worn-out chisels, penknives with broken blades, tarnished watches that did not even pretend to be in going order, and other miscellaneous rubbish.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

17  Reality only exerts its pressure through the needs of everyday life--the need to eat and drink, to get shelter and clothing, to avoid swallowing poison or stepping out of top-storey windows, and the like.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9