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1  Uncalled, a memory floated into his mind.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
2  I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
3  A trumpet call, clear and beautiful, floated into the stagnant air.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
4  Suddenly he floated out of his seat, dived into the eyes, and was swallowed up.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
5  The face of O'Brien, not called up by any obvious association, had floated into his mind.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
6  As though in confirmation of this, a trumpet call floated from the telescreen just above their heads.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
7  Her voice floated upward with the sweet summer air, very tuneful, charged with a sort of happy melancholy.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
8  Down in the yard the woman had stopped singing, but the faint shouts of children floated in from the street.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
9  From somewhere at the bottom of a passage the smell of roasting coffee--real coffee, not Victory Coffee--came floating out into the street.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
10  From somewhere far away there floated the faint shouts of children: in the room itself there was no sound except the insect voice of the clock.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
11  Actually the idea had first floated into his head in the form of a vision, of the glass paperweight mirrored by the surface of the gateleg table.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4