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1  Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
2  Mrs. Parsons' eyes flitted nervously from Winston to the children, and back again.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
3  He was alone: no telescreen, no ear at the keyhole, no nervous impulse to glance over his shoulder or cover the page with his hand.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
4  A scrubby beard covered his face to the cheekbones, giving him an air of ruffianism that went oddly with his large weak frame and nervous movements.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
5  A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself--anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
6  Not only any actual misdemeanour, but any eccentricity, however small, any change of habits, any nervous mannerism that could possibly be the symptom of an inner struggle, is certain to be detected.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
7  One did not know what happened inside the Ministry of Love, but it was possible to guess: tortures, drugs, delicate instruments that registered your nervous reactions, gradual wearing-down by sleeplessness and solitude and persistent questioning.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
8  Their real weapon was the merciless questioning that went on and on, hour after hour, tripping him up, laying traps for him, twisting everything that he said, convicting him at every step of lies and self-contradiction until he began weeping as much from shame as from nervous fatigue.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2