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1  He was already dead, he reflected.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

2  Of course we use those forms already.

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  The room was already very full and deafeningly noisy.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

5  That was all, and he was already uncertain whether it had happened.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

6  It was like trying to make a move at chess when you were already mated.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1

7  He had lugged out a huge and filthy pipe which was already half full of charred tobacco.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

8  There was a small bookcase in the other corner, and Winston had already gravitated towards it.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

9  At thirty-five he was already putting on rolls of fat at neck and waistline, but his movements were brisk and boyish.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

10  He had already made up his mind that after a suitable interval--a month, say--he would take the risk of visiting the shop again.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

11  A black plume of smoke hung in the sky, and below it a cloud of plaster dust in which a crowd was already forming around the ruins.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

12  Then he unrolled and clipped together four small cylinders of paper which had already flopped out of the pneumatic tube on the right-hand side of his desk.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

13  As Winston stood watching, it occurred to him that the old man, who must be eighty at the least, had already been middle-aged when the Revolution happened.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

14  He had the feeling, though already at that time facts and dates were growing blurry, that he had known their names years earlier than he had known that of Big Brother.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

15  Winston sprang to attention in front of the telescreen, upon which the image of a youngish woman, scrawny but muscular, dressed in tunic and gym-shoes, had already appeared.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

16  They were down in some subterranean place--the bottom of a well, for instance, or a very deep grave--but it was a place which, already far below him, was itself moving downwards.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

17  His exploits had been gradually pushed backwards in time until already they extended into the fabulous world of the forties and the thirties, when the capitalists in their strange cylindrical hats still rode through the streets of London in great gleaming motor-cars or horse carriages with glass sides.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3