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1  He remembered aeroplanes since his earliest childhood.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
2  For perhaps two seconds he was back in the half-forgotten world of his childhood.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
3  For a whole afternoon they had all been happy together, as in his earlier childhood.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
4  He tried to squeeze out some childhood memory that should tell him whether London had always been quite like this.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
5  This again was never put into plain words, but in an indirect way it was rubbed into every Party member from childhood onwards.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
6  For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
7  But in any case an elaborate mental training, undergone in childhood and grouping itself round the Newspeak words CRIMESTOP, BLACKWHITE, and DOUBLETHINK, makes him unwilling and unable to think too deeply on any subject whatever.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
8  As he mechanically shot his arms back and forth, wearing on his face the look of grim enjoyment which was considered proper during the Physical Jerks, he was struggling to think his way backward into the dim period of his early childhood.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war, but it was evident that there had been a fairly long interval of peace during his childhood, because one of his early memories was of an air raid which appeared to take everyone by surprise.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
10  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
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4