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1  All the dirty jobs were done by the politicals.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
2  He was shoeless; large, dirty toes were sticking out of the holes in his socks.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
3  He opened the window, lit the dirty little oilstove and put on a pan of water for coffee.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
4  The round Mogol faces had given way to faces of a more European type, dirty, bearded and exhausted.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
5  The Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
6  They had put him into a cell similar to the one he was now in, but filthily dirty and at all times crowded by ten or fifteen people.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
7  At irregular intervals they presented him with a dirty slip of paper which they said was the bill, but he had the impression that they always undercharged him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
8  Already on the walk from the station the May sunshine had made him feel dirty and etiolated, a creature of indoors, with the sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
9  It was a dark, dirty, miserable place where hardly anybody had enough to eat and where hundreds and thousands of poor people had no boots on their feet and not even a roof to sleep under.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
10  Games impedimenta--hockey-sticks, boxing-gloves, a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out--lay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise-books.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
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
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
12  He had sat silent against the wall, jostled by dirty bodies, too preoccupied by fear and the pain in his belly to take much interest in his surroundings, but still noticing the astonishing difference in demeanour between the Party prisoners and the others.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
13  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
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5