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1  Winston followed her down the passage.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  A thousand rocket bombs would not batter it down.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  Winston knelt down and examined the angle-joint of the pipe.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  The black-moustachio'd face gazed down from every commanding corner.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  He sat back in his chair, slightly ashamed of himself, and laid down the pen.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  Suddenly he began writing in sheer panic, only imperfectly aware of what he was setting down.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  He hated using his hands, and he hated bending down, which was always liable to start him coughing.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  The next moment, however, the burning in his belly died down and the world began to look more cheerful.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  He went back to the living-room and sat down at a small table that stood to the left of the telescreen.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  Winston poured out nearly a teacupful, nerved himself for a shock, and gulped it down like a dose of medicine.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  Back in the flat he stepped quickly past the telescreen and sat down at the table again, still rubbing his neck.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  But he had not gone six steps down the passage when something hit the back of his neck an agonizingly painful blow.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  He had given a quick glance up and down the street and then had slipped inside and bought the book for two dollars fifty.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the tops of their voices in an effort to drown the maddening bleating voice that came from the screen.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  But the curious thing was that while he was doing so a totally different memory had clarified itself in his mind, to the point where he almost felt equal to writing it down.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  The plaster flaked constantly from ceilings and walls, the pipes burst in every hard frost, the roof leaked whenever there was snow, the heating system was usually running at half steam when it was not closed down altogether from motives of economy.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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