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1  His large ugly face came nearer, with the eyes a little narrowed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
2  He sat as still as he could on the narrow bench, with his hands crossed on his knee.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
3  It was on a dark evening, in a narrow side-street near one of the big railway stations.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
4  He was in a narrow street, with a few dark little shops, interspersed among dwelling-houses.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
5  Hurriedly, lest he should have time to become frightened, he descended the steps and crossed the narrow street.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
6  The pain of sitting on the narrow bench was such that often he got up and walked about, unreproved by the telescreen.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
7  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
8  She shook her head, evidently as a warning that he must keep silent, then parted the bushes and quickly led the way along the narrow track into the wood.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
9  Ampleforth, too large to sit in comfort on the narrow bench, fidgeted from side to side, clasping his lank hands first round one knee, then round the other.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
10  It was perceived that in thus abbreviating a name one narrowed and subtly altered its meaning, by cutting out most of the associations that would otherwise cling to it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League, was wound several times round the waist of her overalls, just tightly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
12  He was not any longer in the narrow white corridors in the Ministry of Love, he was in the enormous sunlit passage, a kilometre wide, down which he had seemed to walk in the delirium induced by drugs.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
13  Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9