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1  The guard was laughing at his contortions.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  All he had eyes for was the truncheon in the guard's hand.
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3  A kick from a guard's boot had broken the fingers of one of his hands.
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4  There would be perhaps five seconds before the guard could rush into the cell.
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5  A guard came in, carrying something made of wire, a box or basket of some kind.
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6  A ruling class which could guard against all of them would remain in power permanently.
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7  From behind him there emerged a broad-chested guard with a long black truncheon in his hand.
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8  He had no matches, but the never-speaking guard who brought his food would give him a light.
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9  It was precisely against suicidal impulses of this kind that he had hoped to guard himself by opening the diary.
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10  He was walking down the white-tiled corridor, with the feeling of walking in sunlight, and an armed guard at his back.
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11  Between meals, if his mother did not stand guard, he was constantly pilfering at the wretched store of food on the shelf.
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12  As the young officer entered and stepped aside, there emerged from behind him a short stumpy guard with enormous arms and shoulders.
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13  Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.
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14  A long line of trucks, with wooden-faced guards armed with sub-machine guns standing upright in each corner, was passing slowly down the street.
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15  The fighting, when there is any, takes place on the vague frontiers whose whereabouts the average man can only guess at, or round the Floating Fortresses which guard strategic spots on the sea lanes.
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16  Although he had a good pretext for coming here, he was haunted at every step by the fear that a black-uniformed guard would suddenly appear from round the corner, demand his papers, and order him to get out.
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17  They yelled insults at the guards, fought back fiercely when their belongings were impounded, wrote obscene words on the floor, ate smuggled food which they produced from mysterious hiding-places in their clothes, and even shouted down the telescreen when it tried to restore order.
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