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1  The news had run round the streets like magic.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
2  In some of these streets a woman daren't leave a baby alone for two minutes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
3  In some streets a woman dare not leave her baby alone in the house, even for five minutes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
4  Late at night, when crowds of rowdy proles roamed the streets, the town had a curiously febrile air.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
5  Down in the street the wind flapped the torn poster to and fro, and the word INGSOC fitfully appeared and vanished.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
6  He had given a quick glance up and down the street and then had slipped inside and bought the book for two dollars fifty.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
7  For the rest they could meet only in the streets, in a different place every evening and never for more than half an hour at a time.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
8  For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
9  Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
10  After he had devoured the chocolate he felt somewhat ashamed of himself and hung about in the streets for several hours, until hunger drove him home.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
11  Within three or four minutes he was out of the area which the bomb had affected, and the sordid swarming life of the streets was going on as though nothing had happened.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
12  He wished that he were walking through the streets with her just as they were doing now but openly and without fear, talking of trivialities and buying odds and ends for the household.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
13  On impulse he had turned away from the bus-stop and wandered off into the labyrinth of London, first south, then east, then north again, losing himself among unknown streets and hardly bothering in which direction he was going.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
14  Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no colour in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
15  All over Oceania this morning there were irrepressible spontaneous demonstrations when workers marched out of factories and offices and paraded through the streets with banners voicing their gratitude to Big Brother for the new, happy life which his wise leadership has bestowed upon us.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
16  His exploits had been gradually pushed backwards in time until already they extended into the fabulous world of the forties and the thirties, when the capitalists in their strange cylindrical hats still rode through the streets of London in great gleaming motor-cars or horse carriages with glass sides.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
17  All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the bazaars of China and Japan--everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
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