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1  More dimly he thought of Julia.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
2  He remembered them dimly, because they were spent chiefly in sleep or stupor.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
3  The telescreen was dimmed to a low murmur; the richness of the dark-blue carpet gave one the impression of treading on velvet.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
4  He was holding the lamp high up, so as to illuminate the whole room, and in the warm dim light the place looked curiously inviting.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
5  In the end he succeeded in forcing her memory back until she did dimly recall that at one time Eastasia and not Eurasia had been the enemy.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
6  He was getting, he judged, three meals in the twenty-four hours; sometimes he wondered dimly whether he was getting them by night or by day.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
7  The other person was a man named O'Brien, a member of the Inner Party and holder of some post so important and remote that Winston had only a dim idea of its nature.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
8  It aroused in Winston dim memories of something seen long ago on a wall or a hoarding--a vast bottle composed of electric lights which seemed to move up and down and pour its contents into a glass.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
9  If she had worked in the Records Department it might have been comparatively simple, but he had only a very dim idea whereabouts in the building the Fiction Department lay, and he had no pretext for going there.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
10  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
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
11  Anything large and impressive, if it was reasonably new in appearance, was automatically claimed as having been built since the Revolution, while anything that was obviously of earlier date was ascribed to some dim period called the Middle Ages.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
12  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.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6