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1  It was a peculiarly beautiful book.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
2  The grammar of Newspeak had two outstanding peculiarities.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
3  It was a peculiar, cracked, braying, jeering note: in his mind Winston called it a yellow note.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
4  There was a peculiar softness, as of rainwater, in both the colour and the texture of the glass.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
5  The peculiar reverence for O'Brien, which nothing seemed able to destroy, flooded Winston's heart again.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
6  He began speaking with the peculiar grave courtesy that differentiated him from the majority of Inner Party members.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6
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.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
8  This peculiar linking-together of opposites--knowledge with ignorance, cynicism with fanaticism--is one of the chief distinguishing marks of Oceanic society.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
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pressure that it exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and been replaced by something quite different.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
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.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
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 Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX