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1  I'm going to put my clothes on, she added.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
2  They had not taken any clothes, not even his mother's overcoat.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
3  They flung their clothes off and climbed into the huge mahogany bed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
4  With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
5  What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
6  She became alert and business-like, put her clothes on, knotted the scarlet sash about her waist, and began arranging the details of the journey home.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  There seemed to be no hour of daylight when she was not marching to and fro between the washtub and the line, alternately gagging herself with clothes pegs and breaking forth into lusty song.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
8  Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  One had the feeling that she would have been perfectly content, if the June evening had been endless and the supply of clothes inexhaustible, to remain there for a thousand years, pegging out diapers and singing rubbish.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  As compared with last year there was more food, more clothes, more houses, more furniture, more cooking-pots, more fuel, more ships, more helicopters, more books, more babies--more of everything except disease, crime, and insanity.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  He seemed to breathe again the warm stuffy odour of the basement kitchen, an odour compounded of bugs and dirty clothes and villainous cheap scent, but nevertheless alluring, because no woman of the Party ever used scent, or could be imagined as doing so.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  As soon as they arrived they would sprinkle everything with pepper bought on the black market, tear off their clothes, and make love with sweating bodies, then fall asleep and wake to find that the bugs had rallied and were massing for the counter-attack.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  They yelled insults at the guards, fought back fiercely when their belongings were impounded, wrote obscene words on the floor, ate smuggled food which they produced from mysterious hiding-places in their clothes, and even shouted down the telescreen when it tried to restore order.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  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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15  He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  The June sun was still high in the sky, and in the sun-filled court below, a monstrous woman, solid as a Norman pillar, with brawny red forearms and a sacking apron strapped about her middle, was stumping to and fro between a washtub and a clothes line, pegging out a series of square white things which Winston recognized as babies' diapers.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  A low-ceilinged, crowded room, its walls grimy from the contact of innumerable bodies; battered metal tables and chairs, placed so close together that you sat with elbows touching; bent spoons, dented trays, coarse white mugs; all surfaces greasy, grime in every crack; and a sourish, composite smell of bad gin and bad coffee and metallic stew and dirty clothes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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