PERHAPS in Classic Quotes

1  For perhaps as much as thirty seconds they kept it up.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

2  Within another minute, perhaps, it would have crumbled into ashes.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

3  Winston had seen O'Brien perhaps a dozen times in almost as many years.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

4  For perhaps two seconds he was back in the half-forgotten world of his childhood.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

5  And then, for perhaps half a minute in all, something happened to the telescreens.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

6  And again, perhaps it was not even unorthodoxy that was written in his face, but simply intelligence.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

7  A game of darts which was going on at the other end of the room interrupted itself for perhaps as much as thirty seconds.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

8  He was a man of perhaps sixty, frail and bowed, with a long, benevolent nose, and mild eyes distorted by thick spectacles.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

9  Perhaps after all she was not really following him about, perhaps it was coincidence that she had sat so close to him two days running.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

10  Much more it was because of a secretly held belief--or perhaps not even a belief, merely a hope--that O'Brien's political orthodoxy was not perfect.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

11  All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

12  She was carrying his baby sister--or perhaps it was only a bundle of blankets that she was carrying: he was not certain whether his sister had been born then.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

13  He did not know how long she had been looking at him, but perhaps for as much as five minutes, and it was possible that his features had not been perfectly under control.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

14  A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

15  His spectacles, his gentle, fussy movements, and the fact that he was wearing an aged jacket of black velvet, gave him a vague air of intellectuality, as though he had been some kind of literary man, or perhaps a musician.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

16  Very early in her married life he had decided--though perhaps it was only that he knew her more intimately than he knew most people--that she had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6

17  Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters, perhaps even--so it was occasionally rumoured--in some hiding-place in Oceania itself.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1