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1  In no other way could the ancient cycle be broken.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
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  Furniture, china, glass it's all been broken up by degrees.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
4  A kick from a guard's boot had broken the fingers of one of his hands.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
5  Perhaps a quarter of the windows in the street were broken and boarded up.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
6  But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
7  In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him: in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
8  The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
9  For a moment it felt as though his entrails were being ground to pulp between the two muscular hips, then he had broken through, sweating a little.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
10  And for the first time he noticed, with a kind of inward shudder, and yet not knowing AT WHAT he shuddered, that both Aaronson and Rutherford had broken noses.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
11  A bench, or shelf, just wide enough to sit on ran round the wall, broken only by the door and, at the end opposite the door, a lavatory pan with no wooden seat.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
12  He felt the smash of truncheons on his elbows and iron-shod boots on his shins; he saw himself grovelling on the floor, screaming for mercy through broken teeth.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
13  Always we shall have the heretic here at our mercy, screaming with pain, broken up, contemptible--and in the end utterly penitent, saved from himself, crawling to our feet of his own accord.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
14  In the window there were trays of nuts and bolts, worn-out chisels, penknives with broken blades, tarnished watches that did not even pretend to be in going order, and other miscellaneous rubbish.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
15  His voice, made metallic by the amplifiers, boomed forth an endless catalogue of atrocities, massacres, deportations, lootings, rapings, torture of prisoners, bombing of civilians, lying propaganda, unjust aggressions, broken treaties.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
16  With a sort of faded enthusiasm he would finger this scrap of rubbish or that--a china bottle-stopper, the painted lid of a broken snuffbox, a pinchbeck locket containing a strand of some long-dead baby's hair--never asking that Winston should buy it, merely that he should admire it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
17  He remembered a surly barber arriving to scrape his chin and crop his hair, and businesslike, unsympathetic men in white coats feeling his pulse, tapping his reflexes, turning up his eyelids, running harsh fingers over him in search for broken bones, and shooting needles into his arm to make him sleep.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
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