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1  The rest of the short flight was accomplished in silence.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IV
2  The man said something short and angry, and suddenly her hands were gone.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VIII
3  The Savage cut him short and, taking his hand, affectionately pressed it.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XVIII
4  Green corduroy shorts and white viscose-woollen stockings turned down below the knee.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III
5  He stood eight centimetres short of the standard Alpha height and was slender in proportion.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IV
6  The Director and his students stood for a short time watching a game of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III
7  The zippers on Lenina's spare pair of viscose velveteen shorts were at first a puzzle, then, solved, a delight.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IX
8  The door of the helicopter opened, and out stepped, first a fair and ruddy-faced young man, then, in green velveteen shorts, white shirt, and jockey cap, a young woman.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XVIII
9  Bernard stood watching the retreating twinkle of the white stockings, the sunburnt knees vivaciously bending and unbending, again, again, and the softer rolling of those well-fitted corduroy shorts beneath the bottle-green jacket.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IV