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1  It's at the edge of the next field, actually.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
2  Presently they had reached the edge of the little wood.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
3  His cigarette had gone out, and he laid it carefully on the edge of the table.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
4  The conspiracy that he had dreamed of did exist, and he had reached the outer edges of it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6
5  It was a noise that set one's teeth on edge and bristled the hair at the back of one's neck.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
6  It should be noted that the fighting never really moves beyond the edges of the disputed areas.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
7  As he sat waiting on the edge of the bed he thought again of the cellars of the Ministry of Love.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
8  The pages were worn at the edges, and fell apart, easily, as though the book had passed through many hands.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
9  O'Brien had tortured him to the edge of lunacy, and in a little while, it was certain, he would send him to his death.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  At the edge of the field were the elm trees, faintly stirring, and somewhere beyond that was the stream where the dace lay in the green pools under the willows.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  Winston, at normal times the kind of person who gravitates to the outer edge of any kind of scrimmage, shoved, butted, squirmed his way forward into the heart of the crowd.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  They had only lagged behind the others for a couple of minutes, but they took a wrong turning, and presently found themselves pulled up short by the edge of an old chalk quarry.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  The queue edged forward till Winston was almost at the counter, then was held up for two minutes because someone in front was complaining that he had not received his tablet of saccharine.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  But there was still that memory moving round the edges of his consciousness, something strongly felt but not reducible to definite shape, like an object seen out of the corner of one's eye.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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