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1  It was impossible to change the line.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
2  I allowed the word "God" to remain at the end of a line.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
3  There was a line or two round the eyes, if you looked closely.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
4  We don't all have the privilege of fighting in the front line, but at least we can all keep fit.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
5  Down in the yard the red-armed woman was still marching to and fro between the washtub and the line.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
6  His heavy face, bent down so that one could see the line of the nose, looked both formidable and intelligent.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
7  In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
8  Even before he was near enough to make out the expression on their faces, Winston could see absorption in every line of their bodies.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
9  A long line of trucks, with wooden-faced guards armed with sub-machine guns standing upright in each corner, was passing slowly down the street.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
10  Just once Winston caught a phrase--'complete and final elimination of Goldsteinism'--jerked out very rapidly and, as it seemed, all in one piece, like a line of type cast solid.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
11  Considerations of prestige made it desirable to preserve the memory of certain historical figures, while at the same time bringing their achievements into line with the philosophy of Ingsoc.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
12  There seemed to be no hour of daylight when she was not marching to and fro between the washtub and the line, alternately gagging herself with clothes pegs and breaking forth into lusty song.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
13  Each contained a message of only one or two lines, in the abbreviated jargon--not actually Newspeak, but consisting largely of Newspeak words--which was used in the Ministry for internal purposes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
14  The thing that impressed Winston in looking back was that the speaker had switched from one line to the other actually in midsentence, not only without a pause, but without even breaking the syntax.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
15  As he looked at the woman in her characteristic attitude, her thick arms reaching up for the line, her powerful mare-like buttocks protruded, it struck him for the first time that she was beautiful.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
16  And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
17  The June sun was still high in the sky, and in the sun-filled court below, a monstrous woman, solid as a Norman pillar, with brawny red forearms and a sacking apron strapped about her middle, was stumping to and fro between a washtub and a clothes line, pegging out a series of square white things which Winston recognized as babies' diapers.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
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