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1  But curiously enough it was Katharine who refused this.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
2  She was looking at him in a sidelong way, but with curious intensity.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
3  It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
4  They were simply an imitation of his earlier manner, and curiously lifeless and unconvincing.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
5  What was curious was that at the time, in the dream, the words had not made much impression on him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
6  Late at night, when crowds of rowdy proles roamed the streets, the town had a curiously febrile air.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
7  For a moment he clung to O'Brien like a baby, curiously comforted by the heavy arm round his shoulders.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
8  He began telling her the story of his married life, but curiously enough she appeared to know the essential parts of it already.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
9  He was holding the lamp high up, so as to illuminate the whole room, and in the warm dim light the place looked curiously inviting.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
10  He had a trick of resettling his spectacles on his nose which was curiously disarming--in some indefinable way, curiously civilized.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
11  As he watched the eyeless face with the jaw moving rapidly up and down, Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
12  It was curious that he seemed not merely to have lost the power of expressing himself, but even to have forgotten what it was that he had originally intended to say.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
13  But the curious thing was that while he was doing so a totally different memory had clarified itself in his mind, to the point where he almost felt equal to writing it down.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  He was walking up a cobbled street of little two-storey houses with battered doorways which gave straight on the pavement and which were somehow curiously suggestive of ratholes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  On the far side of the room, sitting at a table alone, a small, curiously beetle-like man was drinking a cup of coffee, his little eyes darting suspicious glances from side to side.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  It was curious how that beetle-like type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes.
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17  He could hear the woman singing and the scrape of her shoes on the flagstones, and the cries of the children in the street, and somewhere in the far distance a faint roar of traffic, and yet the room seemed curiously silent, thanks to the absence of a telescreen.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
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