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1  Both of their faces were thickly coated with plaster.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  The wind plastered their thin overalls against their bodies.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  Apart from the bloody stump, the hand was so completely whitened as to resemble a plaster cast.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  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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5  The thing had been plastered on every blank space on every wall, even outnumbering the portraits of Big Brother.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  There was a little pile of plaster lying on the pavement ahead of him, and in the middle of it he could see a bright red streak.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  A black plume of smoke hung in the sky, and below it a cloud of plaster dust in which a crowd was already forming around the ruins.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no colour in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  The plaster flaked constantly from ceilings and walls, the pipes burst in every hard frost, the roof leaked whenever there was snow, the heating system was usually running at half steam when it was not closed down altogether from motives of economy.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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