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1  It was a blow struck against the Party.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  He could not run, he could not strike a blow.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  A terrific painless blow had flattened him out.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  But we make the brain perfect before we blow it out.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  For a moment they seemed almost on the point of blows.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  With that first blow on the elbow the nightmare had started.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  But he had not gone six steps down the passage when something hit the back of his neck an agonizingly painful blow.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  It was enough to blow the Party to atoms, if in some way it could have been published to the world and its significance made known.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  If she judged that the coast was clear she would blow her nose when he approached; otherwise he was to walk past her without recognition.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  You could only rebel against it by secret disobedience or, at most, by isolated acts of violence such as killing somebody or blowing something up.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  He let what he judged to be ten minutes go by, tormented all the while by the fear that some accident--a sudden draught blowing across his desk, for instance--would betray him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  He took his stand opposite the chinless man, and then, at a signal from the officer, let free a frightful blow, with all the weight of his body behind it, full in the chinless man's mouth.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  There were times when his nerve so forsook him that he began shouting for mercy even before the beating began, when the mere sight of a fist drawn back for a blow was enough to make him pour forth a confession of real and imaginary crimes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  He could hear just enough of what was issuing from the telescreen to realize that it had all happened, as he had foreseen; a vast seaborne armada had secretly assembled a sudden blow in the enemy's rear, the white arrow tearing across the tail of the black.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  The smell was already filling the room, a rich hot smell which seemed like an emanation from his early childhood, but which one did occasionally meet with even now, blowing down a passage-way before a door slammed, or diffusing itself mysteriously in a crowded street, sniffed for an instant and then lost again.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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