1 But merely to walk into such a place needed an effort of the nerve.
2 His veins had swelled with the effort of the cough, and the varicose ulcer had started itching.
3 They had held on to the primitive emotions which he himself had to re-learn by conscious effort.
4 At the beginning it needed a hard effort not to look at it, but presently hunger gave way to thirst.
5 Winston had never made the smallest effort to verify this guess: indeed, there was no way of doing so.
6 But he abandoned the idea immediately, because even the thought of making any physical effort was unbearable.
7 With a deadly effort, like wrenching a piece out of his own brain, he could even have dragged the thing into the open.
8 In principle the war effort is always so planned as to eat up any surplus that might exist after meeting the bare needs of the population.
9 His overalls fretted his shoulders, the pavement tickled his feet, even the opening and closing of a hand was an effort that made his joints creak.
10 People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the tops of their voices in an effort to drown the maddening bleating voice that came from the screen.
11 He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.
12 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.
13 To keep your face expressionless was not difficult, and even your breathing could be controlled, with an effort: but you could not control the beating of your heart, and the telescreen was quite delicate enough to pick it up.
14 Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.
15 Always they were a rehashing of the ancient themes--slum tenements, starving children, street battles, capitalists in top hats--even on the barricades the capitalists still seemed to cling to their top hats an endless, hopeless effort to get back into the past.
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.
17 There were times when he rolled about the floor, as shameless as an animal, writhing his body this way and that in an endless, hopeless effort to dodge the kicks, and simply inviting more and yet more kicks, in his ribs, in his belly, on his elbows, on his shins, in his groin, in his testicles, on the bone at the base of his spine.
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