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1  'The house is surrounded,' said Winston.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
2  'The house is surrounded,' said the voice.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
3  There was a sound of trampling boots below, inside the house and outside.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
5  In some streets a woman dare not leave her baby alone in the house, even for five minutes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  The sun must have gone down behind the houses; it was not shining into the yard any longer.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  To run for life, to get out of the house before it was too late--no such thought occurred to them.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  He even, seeming almost to fade out of existence as he did so, added that there were two entries to the house, one of them through the back yard, which gave on an alley.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  But in among all this terrible poverty there were just a few great big beautiful houses that were lived in by rich men who had as many as thirty servants to look after them.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  He was walking up a cobbled street of little two-storey houses with battered doorways which gave straight on the pavement and which were somehow curiously suggestive of ratholes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  The reality was decaying, dingy cities where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  Factories, mines, land, houses, transport--everything had been taken away from them: and since these things were no longer private property, it followed that they must be public property.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  As compared with last year there was more food, more clothes, more houses, more furniture, more cooking-pots, more fuel, more ships, more helicopters, more books, more babies--more of everything except disease, crime, and insanity.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  In a world in which everyone worked short hours, had enough to eat, lived in a house with a bathroom and a refrigerator, and possessed a motor-car or even an aeroplane, the most obvious and perhaps the most important form of inequality would already have disappeared.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations--that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  In any time that he could accurately remember, there had never been quite enough to eat, one had never had socks or underclothes that were not full of holes, furniture had always been battered and rickety, rooms underheated, tube trains crowded, houses falling to pieces, bread dark-coloured, tea a rarity, coffee filthy-tasting, cigarettes insufficient--nothing cheap and plentiful except synthetic gin.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5