1 We control life, Winston, at all its levels.
2 The cells where the guards had beaten him were below ground level.
3 A thrush had alighted on a bough not five metres away, almost at the level of their faces.
4 His troubled eyes were gazing at the wall about a metre above the level of Winston's head.
5 O'Brien had sat down beside the bed, so that his face was almost on a level with Winston's.
6 Perhaps it was only when people were somewhere near the starvation level that they had anything to sing about.
7 The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below.
8 From the foregoing account it will be seen that in Newspeak the expression of unorthodox opinions, above a very low level, was well-nigh impossible.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 9 Even if it was still necessary for human beings to do different kinds of work, it was no longer necessary for them to live at different social or economic levels.
10 And the Ministry had not only to supply the multifarious needs of the party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat.
11 Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.
12 He must be cut off from the past, just as he must be cut off from foreign countries, because it is necessary for him to believe that he is better off than his ancestors and that the average level of material comfort is constantly rising.
13 They could only become dangerous if the advance of industrial technique made it necessary to educate them more highly; but, since military and commercial rivalry are no longer important, the level of popular education is actually declining.
14 They are obliged to prevent their followers from starving to death in numbers large enough to be inconvenient, and they are obliged to remain at the same low level of military technique as their rivals; but once that minimum is achieved, they can twist reality into whatever shape they choose.
15 If Oceania were to conquer the areas that used once to be known as France and Germany, it would be necessary either to exterminate the inhabitants, a task of great physical difficulty, or to assimilate a population of about a hundred million people, who, so far as technical development goes, are roughly on the Oceanic level.