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1  He had worked more than ninety hours in five days.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
2  It was his friend Syme, who worked in the Research Department.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
3  It was nicknamed Muck House by the people who worked in it, she remarked.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
4  He did not know her name, but he knew that she worked in the Fiction Department.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
5  They worked twelve hours a day, they left school at nine, they slept ten in a room.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
6  A small, sandy-haired woman who worked in the next cubicle to Winston was between them.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
7  His face had undergone only tiny changes that had nevertheless worked a complete transformation.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
8  Everyone in the Records Department worked eighteen hours in the twenty-four, with two three-hour snatches of sleep.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
9  His tongue worked soundlessly, forming the opening syllables first of one word, then of the other, over and over again.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
10  Children no older than you had to work twelve hours a day for cruel masters who flogged them with whips if they worked too slowly and fed them on nothing but stale breadcrusts and water.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
11  If she had worked in the Records Department it might have been comparatively simple, but he had only a very dim idea whereabouts in the building the Fiction Department lay, and he had no pretext for going there.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
12  It was nearly eleven hundred, and in the Records Department, where Winston worked, they were dragging the chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the centre of the hall opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for the Two Minutes Hate.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
13  There was even a whole sub-section--Pornosec, it was called in Newspeak--engaged in producing the lowest kind of pornography, which was sent out in sealed packets and which no Party member, other than those who worked on it, was permitted to look at.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
14  Winston, still carrying the brief-case containing the book, which had remained between his feet while he worked and under his body while he slept, went home, shaved himself, and almost fell asleep in his bath, although the water was barely more than tepid.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
15  In a world in which everyone worked short hours, had enough to eat, lived in a house with a bathroom and a refrigerator, and possessed a motor-car or even an aeroplane, the most obvious and perhaps the most important form of inequality would already have disappeared.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
16  The largest section of the Records Department, far larger than the one on which Winston worked, consisted simply of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books, newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for destruction.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
17  Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations--that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
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