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1  They played eight games, winning four each.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
2  The sweet summer air played against his cheek.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
3  In this game that we're playing, we can't win.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
4  They had played sound-tracks to him, shown him photographs.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
5  They had played a similar trick with the instinct of parenthood.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
6  The tune that they were playing changed, and the tone of the music changed too.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
7  But then his mother lit a piece of candle and they sat down on the floor to play.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
8  The Parsons children played it at all hours of the night and day, unbearably, on a comb and a piece of toilet paper.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
9  At the Community Centre you could always tell when he had been playing table-tennis by the dampness of the bat handle.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
10  He knew, or he could imagine, the arguments which proved his own nonexistence; but they were nonsense, they were only a play on words.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
11  It struck him that the man's whole life was playing a part, and that he felt it to be dangerous to drop his assumed personality even for a moment.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
12  This drama that I have played out with you during seven years will be played out over and over again generation after generation, always in subtler forms.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
13  A young woman leapt out of a doorway a little ahead of Winston, grabbed up a tiny child playing in a puddle, whipped her apron round it, and leapt back again, all in one movement.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
14  Solitude and safety were physical sensations, mixed up somehow with the tiredness of his body, the softness of the chair, the touch of the faint breeze from the window that played upon his cheek.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
15  The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of DOUBLETHINK he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9