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1  Then for three dreadful days she did not appear at all.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
2  'Thoughtcrime is a dreadful thing, old man,' he said sententiously.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
3  Quite soon he grew to have a feeling of positive dread when the appointed day came round.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
4  But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
5  Moreover he was in dread that if he persisted in his disagreement O'Brien would twist the dial again.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
6  Some dreadful thing which had lain embedded in the future had somehow been skipped over and had not happened.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
7  He was standing in front of a wall of darkness, and on the other side of it there was something unendurable, something too dreadful to be faced.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
8  There were streaks of white in her hair; but the truly dreadful detail was that her mouth had fallen a little open, revealing nothing except a cavernous blackness.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6