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1  But that would be shocking folly, as he well knew.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
2  To turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
3  Folly, folly, his heart kept saying: conscious, gratuitous, suicidal folly.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
4  It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
5  All her rebelliousness, her deceit, her folly, her dirty-mindedness--everything has been burned out of her.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
6  The serious piece of folly had been to come back here in the first place, after buying the diary and without knowing whether the proprietor of the shop could be trusted.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
7  It had been a rash act to come here at all, and sheer folly to arrive together; though it was true that they had come by different routes and only met on O'Brien's doorstep.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8