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1  He tore open a corner of the packet.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  Winston regarded him out of the corner of his eye.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
3  Now that's a nice gateleg table in the corner there.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  The black-moustachio'd face gazed down from every commanding corner.
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5  The three men sat in their corner almost motionless, never speaking.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  There was a small bookcase in the other corner, and Winston had already gravitated towards it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  He remembered the sort of terrified fascination with which he had watched them out of the corner of his eye.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
8  In the corner, on the gateleg table, the glass paperweight which he had bought on his last visit gleamed softly out of the half-darkness.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
9  A long line of trucks, with wooden-faced guards armed with sub-machine guns standing upright in each corner, was passing slowly down the street.
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10  With the tip of his finger he picked up an identifiable grain of whitish dust and deposited it on the corner of the cover, where it was bound to be shaken off if the book was moved.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  Only on a small table in the corner was there a litter of odds and ends--lacquered snuffboxes, agate brooches, and the like--which looked as though they might include something interesting.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  But there was still that memory moving round the edges of his consciousness, something strongly felt but not reducible to definite shape, like an object seen out of the corner of one's eye.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  There were evenings when they reached their rendezvous and then had to walk past one another without a sign, because a patrol had just come round the corner or a helicopter was hovering overhead.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  Although he had a good pretext for coming here, he was haunted at every step by the fear that a black-uniformed guard would suddenly appear from round the corner, demand his papers, and order him to get out.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  They threaded their way across the crowded room and unpacked their trays on to the metal-topped table, on one corner of which someone had left a pool of stew, a filthy liquid mess that had the appearance of vomit.
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16  An enormous wreck of a woman, aged about sixty, with great tumbling breasts and thick coils of white hair which had come down in her struggles, was carried in, kicking and shouting, by four guards, who had hold of her one at each corner.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  She suddenly twisted herself over in the bed, seized a shoe from the floor, and sent it hurtling into the corner with a boyish jerk of her arm, exactly as he had seen her fling the dictionary at Goldstein, that morning during the Two Minutes Hate.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
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