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1  That wasn't made less than a hundred years ago.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
2  Roared out by hundreds of voices to the tramp of marching feet, it was terrifying.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
3  Parsons boasted that Victory Mansions alone would display four hundred metres of bunting.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
4  One fell on a crowded film theatre in Stepney, burying several hundred victims among the ruins.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
5  I tell you that the Brotherhood exists, but I cannot tell you whether it numbers a hundred members, or ten million.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
6  Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
7  At that time some hundreds of bombs were dropped on industrial centres, chiefly in European Russia, Western Europe, and North America.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
8  All this he seemed to see in the large eyes of his mother and his sister, looking up at him through the green water, hundreds of fathoms down and still sinking.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
9  He remembered how once he had been walking down a crowded street when a tremendous shout of hundreds of voices women's voices--had burst from a side-street a little way ahead.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
10  At this moment O'Brien glanced at his wrist-watch, saw that it was nearly eleven hundred, and evidently decided to stay in the Records Department until the Two Minutes Hate was over.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  It was a dark, dirty, miserable place where hardly anybody had enough to eat and where hundreds and thousands of poor people had no boots on their feet and not even a roof to sleep under.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
12  Very occasionally some person whom you had believed dead long since would make a ghostly reappearance at some public trial where he would implicate hundreds of others by his testimony before vanishing, this time for ever.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
13  Whichever power controls equatorial Africa, or the countries of the Middle East, or Southern India, or the Indonesian Archipelago, disposes also of the bodies of scores or hundreds of millions of ill-paid and hard-working coolies.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
14  And in spite of the endless slaughters reported in the Press and on the telescreens, the desperate battles of earlier wars, in which hundreds of thousands or even millions of men were often killed in a few weeks, have never been repeated.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
15  It was nearly eleven hundred, and in the Records Department, where Winston worked, they were dragging the chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the centre of the hall opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for the Two Minutes Hate.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
16  He did not see that the continuity of an oligarchy need not be physical, nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have always been shortlived, whereas adoptive organizations such as the Catholic Church have sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
17  The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering--a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons--a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting--three hundred million people all with the same face.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
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