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1  Then she buried her face in her hands.
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2  He knelt down before her and took her hands in his.
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3  Wherever his hands moved it was all as yielding as water.
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4  The clock's hands said seventeen-twenty: it was nineteen-twenty really.
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5  When Winston woke up the hands of the clock had crept round to nearly nine.
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6  A knot of others, standing round with glasses in their hands, were watching the scene.
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7  No one who had once fallen into the hands of the Thought Police ever escaped in the end.
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8  But just at this moment the crowd pressed them together and their hands accidentally met.
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9  He hated using his hands, and he hated bending down, which was always liable to start him coughing.
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10  It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together.
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11  Just once in his whole life he had held in his hands unmistakable documentary proof of the falsification of an historical fact.
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12  Winston raised his hands above his head, but with an uneasy feeling, so vicious was the boy's demeanour, that it was not altogether a game.
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13  Two bloated women, one of them with her hair coming down, had got hold of the same saucepan and were trying to tear it out of one another's hands.
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14  His tiny sister, clinging to her mother with both hands, exactly like a baby monkey, sat looking over her shoulder at him with large, mournful eyes.
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15  Presumably--since he had sometimes seen her with oily hands and carrying a spanner--she had some mechanical job on one of the novel-writing machines.
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16  He would cry out with rage when she stopped ladling, he would try to wrench the saucepan and spoon out of her hands, he would grab bits from his sister's plate.
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17  With hands locked together, invisible among the press of bodies, they stared steadily in front of them, and instead of the eyes of the girl, the eyes of the aged prisoner gazed mournfully at Winston out of nests of hair.
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