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1  I takes 'em down reg'lar as the clock.'
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
2  When Winston woke up the hands of the clock had crept round to nearly nine.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
3  He noticed that the clock on the mantelpiece said nine, meaning twenty-one.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
4  From somewhere far away there floated the faint shouts of children: in the room itself there was no sound except the insect voice of the clock.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
5  He had the feeling that he could get inside it, and that in fact he was inside it, along with the mahogany bed and the gateleg table, and the clock and the steel engraving and the paperweight itself.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
6  There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
7  It seemed to him that he knew exactly what it felt like to sit in a room like this, in an arm-chair beside an open fire with your feet in the fender and a kettle on the hob; utterly alone, utterly secure, with nobody watching you, no voice pursuing you, no sound except the singing of the kettle and the friendly ticking of the clock.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8