HEARD in Classic Quotes

1  Nobody heard what Big Brother was saying.

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

2  Never heard of 'em,' said the barman shortly.

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

3  You will have heard rumours of the existence of the Brotherhood.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8

4  It was a refrain that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion.

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

5  She had never heard of the Brotherhood, and refused to believe in its existence.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3

6  Yet so far as he could remember he had never in real life heard church bells ringing.

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

7  Whatever happened you vanished, and neither you nor your actions were ever heard of again.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7

8  Oh, comrade,' she began in a dreary, whining sort of voice, 'I thought I heard you come in.

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

9  It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

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

10  He could be heard, of course, but so long as he stayed in his present position he could not be seen.

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

11  It struck him as a curious fact that he had never heard a member of the Party singing alone and spontaneously.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4

12  More commonly, people who had incurred the displeasure of the Party simply disappeared and were never heard of again.

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

13  He had just turned back to Chapter I when he heard Julia's footstep on the stair and started out of his chair to meet her.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9

14  Not that there was any rule against walking home by an unusual route: but it was enough to draw attention to you if the Thought Police heard about it.

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

15  Suddenly, as though he were listening to somebody else, Winston heard himself demanding in a loud booming voice that he should be given the whole piece.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7

16  Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.

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

17  Times beyond number, at Party rallies and spontaneous demonstrations, she had shouted at the top of her voice for the execution of people whose names she had never heard and in whose supposed crimes she had not the faintest belief.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5