DOORS in Classic Quotes

1  There was a knocking at the door.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

2  He drew in his breath and opened the door.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

3  He got up and moved heavily towards the door.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

4  He took his leave of Mrs. Parsons and made for the door.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

5  He pushed open the door, and a hideous cheesy smell of sour beer hit him in the face.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

6  'It's the children,' said Mrs. Parsons, casting a half-apprehensive glance at the door.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

7  Then a door banged, seeming to cut off the smell as abruptly as though it had been a sound.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

8  Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed--no escape.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

9  The old man seemed seldom or never to go out of doors, and on the other hand to have almost no customers.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5

10  As he passed through the lavatory door he transferred it to his pocket and felt it with the tips of his fingers.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1

11  From their grimy swing doors, endlessly opening and shutting, there came forth a smell of urine, sawdust, and sour beer.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

12  A very old man, bent but active, with white moustaches that bristled forward like those of a prawn, pushed open the swing door and went in.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

13  It was perfectly possible that the patrols would catch him on the way out: for that matter they might be waiting outside the door at this moment.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6

14  He got away from Mr. Charrington and went down the stairs alone, so as not to let the old man see him reconnoitring the street before stepping out of the door.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

15  It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents, as though it were in the bar-room that he expected the changes to have occurred.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

17  Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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