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1  He had gone straight on working.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
2  'I was working,' said Winston indifferently.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
3  The extra half-litre was already working on him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
4  'Look at him working away in the lunch hour,' said Parsons, nudging Winston.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
5  Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed--no escape.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
6  The preparations for Hate Week were in full swing, and the staffs of all the Ministries were working overtime.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  It was the law by which every capitalist had the right to sleep with any woman working in one of his factories.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
8  Very likely as many as a dozen people were now working away on rival versions of what Big Brother had actually said.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
9  Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
10  We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some kind of secret organization working against the Party, and that you are involved in it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
11  Winston's working week was sixty hours, Julia's was even longer, and their free days varied according to the pressure of work and did not often coincide.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
12  Three messages had slid out of the pneumatic tube while Winston was working, but they were simple matters, and he had disposed of them before the Two Minutes Hate interrupted him.
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13  These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the working class, had been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monopoly industry and centralized government.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
14  The economy of many countries was allowed to stagnate, land went out of cultivation, capital equipment was not added to, great blocks of the population were prevented from working and kept half alive by State charity.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
15  In the corresponding cubicle on the other side a small, precise-looking, dark-chinned man named Tillotson was working steadily away, with a folded newspaper on his knee and his mouth very close to the mouthpiece of the speakwrite.
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16  It was assumed that when he was not working, eating, or sleeping he would be taking part in some kind of communal recreation: to do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous.
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17  The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering--a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons--a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting--three hundred million people all with the same face.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
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