1 You are rotting away,' he said; 'you are falling to pieces.
2 Light that seemed stronger than usual was falling on his face.
3 There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power.
4 About twenty or thirty of them a week were falling on London at present.
5 If you are falling from a height it is not cowardly to clutch at a rope.
6 Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's centre.
7 Julia had settled down on her side and seemed to be already on the point of falling asleep.
8 If he persisted in talking of such subjects, she had a disconcerting habit of falling asleep.
9 In the moment when he had seen her fall on the bandaged arm, it had been as though he felt the pain in his own body.
10 His mind sagged round and round on the same trick, like a ball falling again and again into the same series of slots.
11 Presently the rising and falling of their breasts slowed to normal speed, and in a sort of pleasant helplessness they fell apart.
12 At one time he must have been immensely strong; now his great body was sagging, sloping, bulging, falling away in every direction.
13 He could not move out of a walk, he could not hold his stool out at arm's length, he could not stand on one leg without falling over.
14 He could not even fall back on the pretence that he had come to borrow the dictionary, because in that case Julia's presence was impossible to explain.
15 Tirelessly the woman marched to and fro, corking and uncorking herself, singing and falling silent, and pegging out more diapers, and more and yet more.
16 As soon as they arrived they would sprinkle everything with pepper bought on the black market, tear off their clothes, and make love with sweating bodies, then fall asleep and wake to find that the bugs had rallied and were massing for the counter-attack.
17 In any time that he could accurately remember, there had never been quite enough to eat, one had never had socks or underclothes that were not full of holes, furniture had always been battered and rickety, rooms underheated, tube trains crowded, houses falling to pieces, bread dark-coloured, tea a rarity, coffee filthy-tasting, cigarettes insufficient--nothing cheap and plentiful except synthetic gin.
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