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1  He could never see the face of Goldstein without a painful mixture of emotions.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  It resembled the face of a sheep, and the voice, too, had a sheep-like quality.
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3  He pushed open the door, and a hideous cheesy smell of sour beer hit him in the face.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  Under his hand there was a dial with a lever on top and figures running round the face.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  She looked him straight in the face, then walked quickly on as though she had not seen him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  As usual, the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed on to the screen.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  The voice of Goldstein had become an actual sheep's bleat, and for an instant the face changed into that of a sheep.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  You have thought sometimes,' said O'Brien, 'that my face--the face of a member of the Inner Party--looks old and worn.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
9  The black eyebrows were less bushy, the wrinkles were gone, the whole lines of the face seemed to have altered; even the nose seemed shorter.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  But the face of Big Brother seemed to persist for several seconds on the screen, as though the impact that it had made on everyone's eyeballs was too vivid to wear off immediately.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort with which one wrenches one's head away from the pillow in a nightmare, Winston succeeded in transferring his hatred from the face on the screen to the dark-haired girl behind him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  As his eyes regained their focus he remembered who he was, and where he was, and recognized the face that was gazing into his own; but somewhere or other there was a large patch of emptiness, as though a piece had been taken out of his brain.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  But in the same moment, drawing a deep sigh of relief from everybody, the hostile figure melted into the face of Big Brother, black-haired, black-moustachio'd, full of power and mysterious calm, and so vast that it almost filled up the screen.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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