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1  O'Brien stopped him with a movement of the hand.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
2  With a brief movement of the hand he indicated Ampleforth.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
3  With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
4  Without any warning except a slight movement of O'Brien's hand, a wave of pain flooded his body.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
5  In his lean throat the sharp-pointed Adam's apple made a surprisingly rapid up-and-down movement, and the beer vanished.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
6  Such a thing as an independent political movement was outside her imagination: and in any case the Party was invincible.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
7  The cyclical movement of history was now intelligible, or appeared to be so; and if it was intelligible, then it was alterable.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
8  There is far less to-and-fro movement between the different groups than happened under capitalism or even in the pre-industrial age.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
9  Thus, the Party rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it chooses to do this in the name of Socialism.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
10  O'Brien, however, had continued forward in the same movement, laying a friendly hand for a moment on Winston's arm, so that the two of them were walking side by side.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6
11  You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
12  A young woman leapt out of a doorway a little ahead of Winston, grabbed up a tiny child playing in a puddle, whipped her apron round it, and leapt back again, all in one movement.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
13  Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
14  His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
15  With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
16  Ingsoc, which grew out of the earlier Socialist movement and inherited its phraseology, has in fact carried out the main item in the Socialist programme; with the result, foreseen and intended beforehand, that economic inequality has been made permanent.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
17  There was no evidence, only fleeting glimpses that might mean anything or nothing: snatches of overheard conversation, faint scribbles on lavatory walls--once, even, when two strangers met, a small movement of the hand which had looked as though it might be a signal of recognition.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
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