SPECTACLE in Classic Quotes

1  He peered at Winston over the top of his spectacles.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

2  This happened about once a month, and was a popular spectacle.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

3  With his characteristic gesture O'Brien resettled his spectacles on his nose.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8

4  He looked up, and his spectacles darted a hostile flash in Winston's direction.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

5  By the third day his eyes ached unbearably and his spectacles needed wiping every few minutes.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9

6  He had taken off his spectacles and was in the act of resettling them on his nose with his characteristic gesture.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

7  He was a man of perhaps sixty, frail and bowed, with a long, benevolent nose, and mild eyes distorted by thick spectacles.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

8  With the curious, disarming friendliness that he always managed to put in to the gesture he resettled his spectacles on his nose.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6

9  He had a trick of resettling his spectacles on his nose which was curiously disarming--in some indefinable way, curiously civilized.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

10  He re-adjusted his spectacles on his nose, sighed, and drew the next batch of work towards him, with the scrap of paper on top of it.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1

11  He went back to his cubicle, sat down, threw the fragment of paper casually among the other papers on the desk, put on his spectacles and hitched the speakwrite towards him.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1

12  His head was thrown back a little, and because of the angle at which he was sitting, his spectacles caught the light and presented to Winston two blank discs instead of eyes.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

13  When the Hate was over he returned to his cubicle, took the Newspeak dictionary from the shelf, pushed the speakwrite to one side, cleaned his spectacles, and settled down to his main job of the morning.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

14  Wandering about among his worthless stock, with his long nose and thick spectacles and his bowed shoulders in the velvet jacket, he had always vaguely the air of being a collector rather than a tradesman.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5

15  His spectacles, his gentle, fussy movements, and the fact that he was wearing an aged jacket of black velvet, gave him a vague air of intellectuality, as though he had been some kind of literary man, or perhaps a musician.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

16  With the deep, unconscious sigh which not even the nearness of the telescreen could prevent him from uttering when his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

17  It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard--a clever face, and yet somehow inherently despicable, with a kind of senile silliness in the long thin nose, near the end of which a pair of spectacles was perched.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1