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1  Out of their bodies no child would ever come.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
2  They must, she said, produce a child if they could.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
3  No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
4  The child of Inner Party parents is in theory not born into the Inner Party.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
5  His mother drew her arm round the child and pressed its face against her breast.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
6  When the last of the chocolate was gone, his mother had clasped the child in her arms.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
7  More than ever he had the air of a teacher taking pains with a wayward but promising child.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
8  We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
9  But luckily no child appeared, and in the end she agreed to give up trying, and soon afterwards they parted.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
10  It was no use, it changed nothing, it did not produce more chocolate, it did not avert the child's death or her own; but it seemed natural to her to do it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
11  For hours at a time she would sit almost immobile on the bed, nursing his young sister, a tiny, ailing, very silent child of two or three, with a face made simian by thinness.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
12  He heard himself promising to lie, to steal, to forge, to murder, to encourage drug-taking and prostitution, to disseminate venereal diseases, to throw vitriol in a child's face.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
13  A young woman leapt out of a doorway a little ahead of Winston, grabbed up a tiny child playing in a puddle, whipped her apron round it, and leapt back again, all in one movement.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
14  Winston whined and grizzled, made futile demands for food, fretted about the room pulling everything out of place and kicking the wainscoting until the neighbours banged on the wall, while the younger child wailed intermittently.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
15  Exactly as his mother had sat on the dingy white-quilted bed, with the child clinging to her, so she had sat in the sunken ship, far underneath him, and drowning deeper every minute, but still looking up at him through the darkening water.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
16  And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which 'The Times' did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak--'child hero' was the phrase generally used--had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
17  Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party--an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people, less level-headed than oneself, might be taken in by it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
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