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1  And then I started talking in my sleep.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
2  They could sleep with your daughters if they chose.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
3  The most deadly danger of all was talking in your sleep.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
4  Even in sleep he could not altogether escape from her image.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  He had long grown used to sleeping with a strong light on his face.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
6  From her breathing it was evident that she was going off to sleep again.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
7  She was one of those people who can go to sleep at any hour and in any position.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
8  He did not stir, because Julia was sleeping with her head in the crook of his arm.
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9  The young, strong body, now helpless in sleep, awoke in him a pitying, protecting feeling.
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10  It was the law by which every capitalist had the right to sleep with any woman working in one of his factories.
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11  Everyone in the Records Department worked eighteen hours in the twenty-four, with two three-hour snatches of sleep.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
12  The sudden jerk out of sleep, the rough hand shaking your shoulder, the lights glaring in your eyes, the ring of hard faces round the bed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  There had been times when consciousness, even the sort of consciousness that one has in sleep, had stopped dead and started again after a blank interval.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  It was a dark, dirty, miserable place where hardly anybody had enough to eat and where hundreds and thousands of poor people had no boots on their feet and not even a roof to sleep under.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  His friendships, his relaxations, his behaviour towards his wife and children, the expression of his face when he is alone, the words he mutters in sleep, even the characteristic movements of his body, are all jealously scrutinized.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  It was assumed that when he was not working, eating, or sleeping he would be taking part in some kind of communal recreation: to do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  The plan is, by a combination of fighting, bargaining, and well-timed strokes of treachery, to acquire a ring of bases completely encircling one or other of the rival states, and then to sign a pact of friendship with that rival and remain on peaceful terms for so many years as to lull suspicion to sleep.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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