1 It was a peculiarly beautiful book.
2 The grammar of Newspeak had two outstanding peculiarities.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 3 It was a peculiar, cracked, braying, jeering note: in his mind Winston called it a yellow note.
4 There was a peculiar softness, as of rainwater, in both the colour and the texture of the glass.
5 The peculiar reverence for O'Brien, which nothing seemed able to destroy, flooded Winston's heart again.
6 He began speaking with the peculiar grave courtesy that differentiated him from the majority of Inner Party members.
7 Still, he continued to feel a peculiar uneasiness, which had fear mixed up in it as well as hostility, whenever she was anywhere near him.
8 This peculiar linking-together of opposites--knowledge with ignorance, cynicism with fanaticism--is one of the chief distinguishing marks of Oceanic society.
9 The peculiar pressure that it exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and been replaced by something quite different.
10 It preaches a contempt for the working class unexampled for centuries past, and it dresses its members in a uniform which was at one time peculiar to manual workers and was adopted for that reason.
11 It will be simpler to discuss each class separately, but the grammatical peculiarities of the language can be dealt with in the section devoted to the A vocabulary, since the same rules held good for all three categories.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX