FIRST in Classic Quotes

1  For the first time he could see the woman properly.

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

2  A week had gone by since she had first approached him.

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

3  The first fragment of chocolate had melted on Winston's tongue.

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

4  Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her.

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

5  For the first time the magnitude of what he had undertaken came home to him.

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

6  When he had gone with that woman it had been his first lapse in two years or thereabouts.

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

7  The two of them must evidently have been swallowed up in one of the first great purges of the fifties.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

8  The first whiff of its scent had stirred up some memory which he could not pin down, but which was powerful and troubling.

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

9  And for the first time he noticed, with a kind of inward shudder, and yet not knowing AT WHAT he shuddered, that both Aaronson and Rutherford had broken noses.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

10  The serious piece of folly had been to come back here in the first place, after buying the diary and without knowing whether the proprietor of the shop could be trusted.

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

11  At nineteen he had designed a hand-grenade which had been adopted by the Ministry of Peace and which, at its first trial, had killed thirty-one Eurasian prisoners in one burst.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

12  That's better, comrade, that's MUCH better, she added encouragingly as Winston, with a violent lunge, succeeded in touching his toes with knees unbent, for the first time in several years.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

13  He could not now remember whether it was before or after having the dream that he had seen O'Brien for the first time, nor could he remember when he had first identified the voice as O'Brien's.

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

14  He stood watching while the instructress raised her arms above her head and--one could not say gracefully, but with remarkable neatness and efficiency--bent over and tucked the first joint of her fingers under her toes.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

15  On impulse he had turned away from the bus-stop and wandered off into the labyrinth of London, first south, then east, then north again, losing himself among unknown streets and hardly bothering in which direction he was going.

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

16  His first feeling was relief, but as he watched the strong slender body moving in front of him, with the scarlet sash that was just tight enough to bring out the curve of her hips, the sense of his own inferiority was heavy upon him.

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

17  There was the usual boiled-cabbage smell, common to the whole building, but it was shot through by a sharper reek of sweat, which--one knew this at the first sniff, though it was hard to say how--was the sweat of some person not present at the moment.

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