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1  His powerful grip crushed the bones of Winston's palm.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
2  He seized one of Winston's remaining front teeth between his powerful thumb and forefinger.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
3  As the door opened, the wave of air that it created brought in a powerful smell of cold sweat.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
4  She enjoyed her work, which consisted chiefly in running and servicing a powerful but tricky electric motor.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
5  It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
6  The more the Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant: the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
7  The first whiff of its scent had stirred up some memory which he could not pin down, but which was powerful and troubling.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
8  And at the same time there were a very few people, only a few thousands--the capitalists, they were called--who were rich and powerful.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
9  He was sitting very straight in his chair, his powerful chest swelling and quivering as though he were standing up to the assault of a wave.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
10  The smell that rose from the saucepan was so powerful and exciting that they shut the window lest anybody outside should notice it and become inquisitive.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
11  When you looked at O'Brien's powerful shoulders and his blunt-featured face, so ugly and yet so civilized, it was impossible to believe that he could be defeated.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
12  It was curious that he seemed not merely to have lost the power of expressing himself, but even to have forgotten what it was that he had originally intended to say.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
13  What is more remarkable is that all three powers already possess, in the atomic bomb, a weapon far more powerful than any that their present researches are likely to discover.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
14  As he looked at the woman in her characteristic attitude, her thick arms reaching up for the line, her powerful mare-like buttocks protruded, it struck him for the first time that she was beautiful.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
15  The self-satisfied sheep-like face on the screen, and the terrifying power of the Eurasian army behind it, were too much to be borne: besides, the sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced fear and anger automatically.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  But in the same moment, drawing a deep sigh of relief from everybody, the hostile figure melted into the face of Big Brother, black-haired, black-moustachio'd, full of power and mysterious calm, and so vast that it almost filled up the screen.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
17  At those moments his secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration, and Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the hordes of Asia, and Goldstein, in spite of his isolation, his helplessness, and the doubt that hung about his very existence, seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
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