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1  There was a memory hole in the opposite wall.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  There was one on the house-front immediately opposite.
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3  Once again he glanced at his rival in the opposite cubicle.
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4  But that is a different thing: in fact, the opposite thing.
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5  'To tell you the truth--' He sat down awkwardly on the bench opposite Winston.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  They were fat, ugly men with wicked faces, like the one in the picture on the opposite page.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall.
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8  Instead of being placed, as was normal, in the end wall, where it could command the whole room, it was in the longer wall, opposite the window.
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9  On the opposite side of the alley there was a dingy little pub whose windows appeared to be frosted over but in reality were merely coated with dust.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  They did not speak again, and, so far as it was possible for two people sitting on opposite sides of the same table, they did not look at one another.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  The old man, still carrying the lamp, was standing in front of a picture in a rosewood frame which hung on the other side of the fireplace, opposite the bed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  A bench, or shelf, just wide enough to sit on ran round the wall, broken only by the door and, at the end opposite the door, a lavatory pan with no wooden seat.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  In the ragged hedge on the opposite side the boughs of the elm trees swayed just perceptibly in the breeze, and their leaves stirred faintly in dense masses like women's hair.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  In the ragged hedge on the opposite side of the field the boughs of the elm trees were swaying very faintly in the breeze, their leaves just stirring in dense masses like women's hair.
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15  He took his stand opposite the chinless man, and then, at a signal from the officer, let free a frightful blow, with all the weight of his body behind it, full in the chinless man's mouth.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  As compared with their opposite numbers in past ages, they were less avaricious, less tempted by luxury, hungrier for pure power, and, above all, more conscious of what they were doing and more intent on crushing opposition.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  It was nearly eleven hundred, and in the Records Department, where Winston worked, they were dragging the chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the centre of the hall opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for the Two Minutes Hate.
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