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1  For a moment they were both tugging, and then the handle came off.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
2  It was an oblong wire cage with a handle on top for carrying it by.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
3  Syme had fallen silent for a moment, and with the handle of his spoon was tracing patterns in the puddle of stew.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
4  The guards, too, treated the common criminals with a certain forbearance, even when they had to handle them roughly.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
5  At the Community Centre you could always tell when he had been playing table-tennis by the dampness of the bat handle.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
6  The theory was that men, whose sex instincts were less controllable than those of women, were in greater danger of being corrupted by the filth they handled.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
7  He remembered how once, after the explosion of a rocket bomb, he had helped to drag a corpse out of some ruins, and had been astonished not only by the incredible weight of the thing, but by its rigidity and awkwardness to handle, which made it seem more like stone than flesh.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6