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1  The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
2  At the age of three Comrade Ogilvy had refused all toys except a drum, a sub-machine gun, and a model helicopter.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
3  From whatever angle you looked at the poster, the muzzle of the gun, magnified by the foreshortening, seemed to be pointed straight at you.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
4  A long line of trucks, with wooden-faced guards armed with sub-machine guns standing upright in each corner, was passing slowly down the street.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
5  In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
6  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.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
7  Then the sheep-face melted into the figure of a Eurasian soldier who seemed to be advancing, huge and terrible, his sub-machine gun roaring, and seeming to spring out of the surface of the screen, so that some of the people in the front row actually flinched backwards in their seats.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
8  For the purposes of everyday life it was no doubt necessary, or sometimes necessary, to reflect before speaking, but a Party member called upon to make a political or ethical judgement should be able to spray forth the correct opinions as automatically as a machine gun spraying forth bullets.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
9  Pursued by enemy jet planes while flying over the Indian Ocean with important despatches, he had weighted his body with his machine gun and leapt out of the helicopter into deep water, despatches and all--an end, said Big Brother, which it was impossible to contemplate without feelings of envy.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4