1 'Pick up those pieces,' he said sharply.
2 He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces.
3 She broke it in half and gave one of the pieces to Winston.
4 You are rotting away,' he said; 'you are falling to pieces.
5 If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning.
6 They would have blown his brain to pieces before they could reclaim it.
7 I've read some of those pieces that you write in "The Times" occasionally.
8 There was a chessboard on the table beside them, with the pieces set out but no game started.
9 Someone had picked up the glass paperweight from the table and smashed it to pieces on the hearth-stone.
10 Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
11 Another bomb fell on a piece of waste ground which was used as a playground and several dozen children were blown to pieces.
12 Not merely the love of one person but the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire: that was the force that would tear the Party to pieces.
13 In another room someone with a comb and a piece of toilet paper was trying to keep tune with the military music which was still issuing from the telescreen.
14 War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
15 The dream had also been comprehended by--indeed, in some sense it had consisted in--a gesture of the arm made by his mother, and made again thirty years later by the Jewish woman he had seen on the news film, trying to shelter the small boy from the bullets, before the helicopter blew them both to pieces.
16 Most of it was a tedious routine, but included in it there were also jobs so difficult and intricate that you could lose yourself in them as in the depths of a mathematical problem--delicate pieces of forgery in which you had nothing to guide you except your knowledge of the principles of Ingsoc and your estimate of what the Party wanted you to say.
17 In any time that he could accurately remember, there had never been quite enough to eat, one had never had socks or underclothes that were not full of holes, furniture had always been battered and rickety, rooms underheated, tube trains crowded, houses falling to pieces, bread dark-coloured, tea a rarity, coffee filthy-tasting, cigarettes insufficient--nothing cheap and plentiful except synthetic gin.
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