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1  Out of their bodies no child would ever come.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
2  A sudden hot sweat had broken out all over Winston's body.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
3  The wind plastered their thin overalls against their bodies.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
4  Her body was white and smooth, but it aroused no desire in him, indeed he barely looked at it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
5  To these people the war is simply a continuous calamity which sweeps to and fro over their bodies like a tidal wave.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
6  Winston could not remember ever to have seen a passageway whose walls were not grimy from the contact of human bodies.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
7  At one time he must have been immensely strong; now his great body was sagging, sloping, bulging, falling away in every direction.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
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  He moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the party.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
10  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.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
11  With hands locked together, invisible among the press of bodies, they stared steadily in front of them, and instead of the eyes of the girl, the eyes of the aged prisoner gazed mournfully at Winston out of nests of hair.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
12  Whichever power controls equatorial Africa, or the countries of the Middle East, or Southern India, or the Indonesian Archipelago, disposes also of the bodies of scores or hundreds of millions of ill-paid and hard-working coolies.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
13  As soon as they arrived they would sprinkle everything with pepper bought on the black market, tear off their clothes, and make love with sweating bodies, then fall asleep and wake to find that the bugs had rallied and were massing for the counter-attack.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
14  He had sat silent against the wall, jostled by dirty bodies, too preoccupied by fear and the pain in his belly to take much interest in his surroundings, but still noticing the astonishing difference in demeanour between the Party prisoners and the others.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
15  He saw himself standing there in the dim lamplight, with the smell of bugs and cheap scent in his nostrils, and in his heart a feeling of defeat and resentment which even at that moment was mixed up with the thought of Katharine's white body, frozen for ever by the hypnotic power of the Party.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
16  Pursued by enemy jet planes while flying over the Indian Ocean with important despatches, he had weighted his body with his machine gun and leapt out of the helicopter into deep water, despatches and all--an end, said Big Brother, which it was impossible to contemplate without feelings of envy.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
17  A low-ceilinged, crowded room, its walls grimy from the contact of innumerable bodies; battered metal tables and chairs, placed so close together that you sat with elbows touching; bent spoons, dented trays, coarse white mugs; all surfaces greasy, grime in every crack; and a sourish, composite smell of bad gin and bad coffee and metallic stew and dirty clothes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
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