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1  'The beer was better,' he said finally.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
2  'You had better go back to your Pantry, Martin,' he said.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
3  I expect I'm better at finding things out than you are, dear.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
4  Outside the clearing, Julia said, it was better to go quietly.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
5  She had regained some of her colour, and appeared very much better.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  It was an intricate and responsible job and had better be dealt with last.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
7  She brought the glass paperweight over to the bed to have a look at it in a better light.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
8  It was better to make it deal with something totally unconnected with its original subject.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
9  In the better light of the living-room he noticed with interest that there actually was dust in the creases of her face.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
10  He said things that would have been better unsaid, he had read too many books, he frequented the Chestnut Tree Cafe, haunt of painters and musicians.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
11  What was even better than the taste of the coffee was the silky texture given to it by the sugar, a thing Winston had almost forgotten after years of saccharine.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
12  He had the sensation of stepping into the dampness of a grave, and it was not much better because he had always known that the grave was there and waiting for him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6
13  With a rather absent-minded air O'Brien pushed them towards the others, took one himself, then stood up and began to pace slowly to and fro, as though he could think better standing.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
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  She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead, that from the moment of declaring war on the Party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  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
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17  He remembered better the rackety, uneasy circumstances of the time: the periodical panics about air-raids and the sheltering in Tube stations, the piles of rubble everywhere, the unintelligible proclamations posted at street corners, the gangs of youths in shirts all the same colour, the enormous queues outside the bakeries, the intermittent machine-gun fire in the distance--above all, the fact that there was never enough to eat.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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