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1  'I hated the sight of you,' he said.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  Merely from feeling it he would have known it by sight.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
3  The shock of the sight had driven all caution out of him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
4  For only an instant it was before his eyes, then it was out of sight again.
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5  The blue overalls of the Party could not be a common sight in a street like this.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
6  At sight of the heavy, lined face, so ugly and so intelligent, his heart seemed to turn over.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  In his vague way Ampleforth was attached to Winston, and would certainly sit down at his table if he caught sight of him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  It is true that our society is stratified, and very rigidly stratified, on what at first sight appear to be hereditary lines.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
9  Winston knew the man by sight, though he knew no more about him than that he held some important post in the Fiction Department.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
10  By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, Winston was able to remain outside the range of the telescreen, so far as sight went.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  All through his interrogation, although he had never seen him, he had had the feeling that O'Brien was at his elbow, just out of sight.
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12  At the sight of the words I LOVE YOU the desire to stay alive had welled up in him, and the taking of minor risks suddenly seemed stupid.
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13  Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was a clear, slow-moving stream where dace were swimming in the pools under the willow trees.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
14  Winston was just taking his place in one of the middle rows when two people whom he knew by sight, but had never spoken to, came unexpectedly into the room.
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15  There was still air in the saloon, they could still see him and he them, but all the while they were sinking down, down into the green waters which in another moment must hide them from sight for ever.
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16  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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17  There were times when his nerve so forsook him that he began shouting for mercy even before the beating began, when the mere sight of a fist drawn back for a blow was enough to make him pour forth a confession of real and imaginary crimes.
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