1 Her body gleamed white in the sun.
2 A sudden hot sweat had broken out all over Winston's body.
3 He thought of her naked, youthful body, as he had seen it in his dream.
4 He pulled her round so that they were breast to breast; her body seemed to melt into his.
5 The young, strong body, now helpless in sleep, awoke in him a pitying, protecting feeling.
6 Her body was white and smooth, but it aroused no desire in him, indeed he barely looked at it.
7 In the moment when he had seen her fall on the bandaged arm, it had been as though he felt the pain in his own body.
8 But for a moment he did not look at her body; his eyes were anchored by the freckled face with its faint, bold smile.
9 It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one's own body.
10 At one time he must have been immensely strong; now his great body was sagging, sloping, bulging, falling away in every direction.
11 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.
12 He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.
13 His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony.
14 His first feeling was relief, but as he watched the strong slender body moving in front of him, with the scarlet sash that was just tight enough to bring out the curve of her hips, the sense of his own inferiority was heavy upon him.
15 He saw himself standing there in the dim lamplight, with the smell of bugs and cheap scent in his nostrils, and in his heart a feeling of defeat and resentment which even at that moment was mixed up with the thought of Katharine's white body, frozen for ever by the hypnotic power of the Party.
16 Pursued by enemy jet planes while flying over the Indian Ocean with important despatches, he had weighted his body with his machine gun and leapt out of the helicopter into deep water, despatches and all--an end, said Big Brother, which it was impossible to contemplate without feelings of envy.
17 On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.
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