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1  'By the way, old boy,' he said.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  Smith, old boy, I'll tell you why I'm chasing you.
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3  The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats.
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4  Someone whom the old man loved--a little granddaughter, perhaps--had been killed.
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5  When I saw her in the light she was quite an old woman, fifty years old at least.
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6  He must, he thought, have been ten or eleven years old when his mother had disappeared.
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7  He would go into the pub, he would scrape acquaintance with that old man and question him.
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8  The old, discredited leaders of the Party had been used to gather there before they were finally purged.
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9  At their second trial they confessed to all their old crimes over again, with a whole string of new ones.
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10  It was an old, rabbit-bitten pasture, with a foot-track wandering across it and a molehill here and there.
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11  I tell you, it won't be my fault if old Victory Mansions doesn't have the biggest outfit of flags in the whole street.
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12  there was a middle-aged woman might have been a jewess sitting up in the bow with a little boy about three years old in her arms.
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13  A very old man, bent but active, with white moustaches that bristled forward like those of a prawn, pushed open the swing door and went in.
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14  Winston and his mother and father found themselves a place on the floor, and near them an old man and an old woman were sitting side by side on a bunk.
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15  As Winston stood watching, it occurred to him that the old man, who must be eighty at the least, had already been middle-aged when the Revolution happened.
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16  The old man had on a decent dark suit and a black cloth cap pushed back from very white hair: his face was scarlet and his eyes were blue and full of tears.
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17  The old man whom he had followed was standing at the bar, having some kind of altercation with the barman, a large, stout, hook-nosed young man with enormous forearms.
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