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1  Look at that disgusting running sore on your leg.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
2  The barrel of the ribs was as narrow as that of a skeleton: the legs had shrunk so that the knees were thicker than the thighs.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
3  But just at this moment he flung himself across the floor of the cell and grabbed one of the iron legs that supported the bench.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
4  He could not move out of a walk, he could not hold his stool out at arm's length, he could not stand on one leg without falling over.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
5  The heavy brief-case that he was carrying bumped against his knee at each step, sending a tingling sensation up and down the skin of his leg.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
6  It was curious how that beetle-like type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
7  They slapped his face, wrung his ears, pulled his hair, made him stand on one leg, refused him leave to urinate, shone glaring lights in his face until his eyes ran with water; but the aim of this was simply to humiliate him and destroy his power of arguing and reasoning.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
8  He did not remember the raid itself, but he did remember his father's hand clutching his own as they hurried down, down, down into some place deep in the earth, round and round a spiral staircase which rang under his feet and which finally so wearied his legs that he began whimpering and they had to stop and rest.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3