OFF in Classic Quotes

1  The sting of the catapult bullet had worn off.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

2  The gin was wearing off, leaving a deflated feeling.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

3  It gave off a sickly, oily smell, as of Chinese rice-spirit.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

4  She had a habit of breaking off her sentences in the middle.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

5  For a moment they were both tugging, and then the handle came off.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

6  It struck Goldstein's nose and bounced off; the voice continued inexorably.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

7  Winston fitted a nib into the penholder and sucked it to get the grease off.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

8  They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

9  Then a door banged, seeming to cut off the smell as abruptly as though it had been a sound.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

10  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

11  He had taken off his spectacles and was in the act of resettling them on his nose with his characteristic gesture.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

12  Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

13  But the face of Big Brother seemed to persist for several seconds on the screen, as though the impact that it had made on everyone's eyeballs was too vivid to wear off immediately.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

14  With the tip of his finger he picked up an identifiable grain of whitish dust and deposited it on the corner of the cover, where it was bound to be shaken off if the book was moved.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

15  On impulse he had turned away from the bus-stop and wandered off into the labyrinth of London, first south, then east, then north again, losing himself among unknown streets and hardly bothering in which direction he was going.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

16  The successful women, bumped and jostled by the rest, were trying to make off with their saucepans while dozens of others clamoured round the stall, accusing the stall-keeper of favouritism and of having more saucepans somewhere in reserve.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

17  little boy screaming with fright and hiding his head between her breasts as if he was trying to burrow right into her and the woman putting her arms round him and comforting him although she was blue with fright herself, all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1