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1  But the physical difficulty of meeting was enormous.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  His heart quailed before the enormous pyramidal shape.
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3  Beside the window the enormous bed was made up, with ragged blankets and a coverless bolster.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall.
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5  Under the window, and occupying nearly a quarter of the room, was an enormous bed with the mattress still on it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  Indeed, he was one of the enormous team of experts now engaged in compiling the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary.
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7  The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  It was more than a month distant, but the enormous, complex preparations that it entailed were throwing extra work on to everybody.
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9  It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features.
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10  The old man whom he had followed was standing at the bar, having some kind of altercation with the barman, a large, stout, hook-nosed young man with enormous forearms.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  The rocket bombs crashed oftener than ever, and sometimes in the far distance there were enormous explosions which no one could explain and about which there were wild rumours.
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12  Soon he was within arm's length of the girl, but the way was blocked by an enormous prole and an almost equally enormous woman, presumably his wife, who seemed to form an impenetrable wall of flesh.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  He led a ghostlike existence between the tiny, dark shop, and an even tinier back kitchen where he prepared his meals and which contained, among other things, an unbelievably ancient gramophone with an enormous horn.
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14  It had no caption, and represented simply the monstrous figure of a Eurasian soldier, three or four metres high, striding forward with expressionless Mongolian face and enormous boots, a submachine gun pointed from his hip.
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15  His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  The wooden-seated carriage in which he travelled was filled to overflowing by a single enormous family, ranging from a toothless great-grandmother to a month-old baby, going out to spend an afternoon with 'in-laws' in the country, and, as they freely explained to Winston, to get hold of a little black-market butter.'
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17  When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.
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