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1  A pang of pain had shot through his body.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
2  A twinge of pain shot through Winston's jaw.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
3  The needle of the dial had shot up to fifty-five.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
4  The terror that Winston already felt was suddenly shot through by a streak of ordinary embarrassment.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
5  It was perfectly possible that before he was shot the whole drama of his arrest and interrogation would be enacted all over again.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
6  The tradition--the unspoken tradition: somehow you knew it, though you never heard it said--was that they shot you from behind; always in the back of the head, without warning, as you walked down a corridor from cell to cell.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
7  As he mechanically shot his arms back and forth, wearing on his face the look of grim enjoyment which was considered proper during the Physical Jerks, he was struggling to think his way backward into the dim period of his early childhood.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
8  There was the usual boiled-cabbage smell, common to the whole building, but it was shot through by a sharper reek of sweat, which--one knew this at the first sniff, though it was hard to say how--was the sweat of some person not present at the moment.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2