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1  O'Brien nodded without appearance of surprise.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
2  Julia uttered a tiny sound, a sort of squeak of surprise.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
3  The food was surprisingly good, with meat at every third meal.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
4  She was also surprisingly adept at speaking without moving her lips.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
5  The transformation that had happened was much more surprising than that.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
6  To a surprising extent the ordinary criminals ignored the Party prisoners.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
7  It was that her waist had grown thicker, and, in a surprising way, had stiffened.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
8  When any large operation is undertaken, it is usually a surprise attack against an ally.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
9  Parsons gave Winston a glance in which there was neither interest nor surprise, but only misery.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
10  In his lean throat the sharp-pointed Adam's apple made a surprisingly rapid up-and-down movement, and the beer vanished.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
11  When his father disappeared, his mother did not show any surprise or any violent grief, but a sudden change came over her.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
12  He noticed that he badly wanted to urinate, and felt a faint surprise, because he had done so only two or three hours ago.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
13  But I wouldn't be altogether surprised if---- Parsons made the motion of aiming a rifle, and clicked his tongue for the explosion.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
14  Nevertheless it had been very difficult not to betray a momentary surprise, for in the two or three seconds while he was helping her up the girl had slipped something into his hand.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
15  Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war, but it was evident that there had been a fairly long interval of peace during his childhood, because one of his early memories was of an air raid which appeared to take everyone by surprise.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
16  And a few cubicles away a mild, ineffectual, dreamy creature named Ampleforth, with very hairy ears and a surprising talent for juggling with rhymes and metres, was engaged in producing garbled versions--definitive texts, they were called--of poems which had become ideologically offensive, but which for one reason or another were to be retained in the anthologies.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4