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1  Party women never paint their faces.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  I must start washing this paint off.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  She had a young face, painted very thick.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  It was really the paint that appealed to me, the whiteness of it, like a mask, and the bright red lips.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  The paint was plastered so thick on her face that it looked as though it might crack like a cardboard mask.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  Squads of volunteers, organized by Parsons, were preparing the street for Hate Week, stitching banners, painting posters, erecting flagstaffs on the roofs, and perilously slinging wires across the street for the reception of streamers.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  With a sort of faded enthusiasm he would finger this scrap of rubbish or that--a china bottle-stopper, the painted lid of a broken snuffbox, a pinchbeck locket containing a strand of some long-dead baby's hair--never asking that Winston should buy it, merely that he should admire it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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