1 His eye fell on the fragments of the glass paperweight.
2 The first fragment of chocolate had melted on Winston's tongue.
3 And then--no, it was not relief, only hope, a tiny fragment of hope.
4 He had dragged out from the corners of his memory some more fragments of forgotten rhymes.
5 When he stood up he found that he was covered with fragments of glass from the nearest window.
6 The fragment of coral, a tiny crinkle of pink like a sugar rosebud from a cake, rolled across the mat.
7 The inexhaustibly interesting thing was not the fragment of coral but the interior of the glass itself.
8 In the future such fragments, even if they chanced to survive, would be unintelligible and untranslatable.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 9 'It just occurred to me you might be interested,' he would say with a deprecating little laugh whenever he produced a new fragment.
10 But this was concrete evidence; it was a fragment of the abolished past, like a fossil bone which turns up in the wrong stratum and destroys a geological theory.
11 He went back to his cubicle, sat down, threw the fragment of paper casually among the other papers on the desk, put on his spectacles and hitched the speakwrite towards him.
12 Portions of it are constantly changing hands, and it is the chance of seizing this or that fragment by a sudden stroke of treachery that dictates the endless changes of alignment.
13 History had already been rewritten, but fragments of the literature of the past survived here and there, imperfectly censored, and so long as one retained one's knowledge of Oldspeak it was possible to read them.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 14 A handsome, tough-looking boy of nine had popped up from behind the table and was menacing him with a toy automatic pistol, while his small sister, about two years younger, made the same gesture with a fragment of wood.
15 And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence.