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1  Cream-laid, it used to be called.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
2  It's a church, or at least it used to be.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
3  They used to kind of embed it in the glass.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
4  Actually he was not used to writing by hand.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
5  He used to say it to me when I was a little girl.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
6  He had long grown used to sleeping with a strong light on his face.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
7  You will have to get used to living without results and without hope.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
8  The old, discredited leaders of the Party had been used to gather there before they were finally purged.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
9  She even used to remind him of it in the morning, as something which had to be done that evening and which must not be forgotten.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
10  It was Boat Race night--terribly rowdy they used to get on Boat Race night--and I bumps into a young bloke on Shaftesbury Avenue.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
11  It was too soon, her youth and prettiness had frightened him, he was too much used to living without women--he did not know the reason.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
12  She was used to judging people by their faces, and it seemed natural to her that Winston should believe O'Brien to be trustworthy on the strength of a single flash of the eyes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
13  In the last truck he could see an aged man, his face a mass of grizzled hair, standing upright with wrists crossed in front of him, as though he were used to having them bound together.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
14  Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron--they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
15  War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9