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1  In the street it was usually possible to talk, after a fashion.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
2  There was only one possible conclusion: the confessions were lies.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
3  It was even possible, at moments, to switch one's hatred this way or that by a voluntary act.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
4  Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
5  In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
6  He took his scribbling pad on his knee and pushed back his chair so as to get as far away from the telescreen as possible.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
7  It was perfectly possible that the patrols would catch him on the way out: for that matter they might be waiting outside the door at this moment.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
8  She had a bold, aquiline face, a face that one might have called noble until one discovered that there was as nearly as possible nothing behind it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
9  They did not speak again, and, so far as it was possible for two people sitting on opposite sides of the same table, they did not look at one another.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
10  It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party's control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
11  The thing that now suddenly struck Winston was that his mother's death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
12  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
13  Talking to him was largely a matter of getting him away from such subjects and entangling him, if possible, in the technicalities of Newspeak, on which he was authoritative and interesting.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
14  Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
15  Actually, all the possible ways of communicating with her had occurred to him within five minutes of reading the note; but now, with time to think, he went over them one by one, as though laying out a row of instruments on a table.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
16  If he could get her at a table by herself, somewhere in the middle of the room, not too near the telescreens, and with a sufficient buzz of conversation all round--if these conditions endured for, say, thirty seconds, it might be possible to exchange a few words.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
17  little boy screaming with fright and hiding his head between her breasts as if he was trying to burrow right into her and the woman putting her arms round him and comforting him although she was blue with fright herself, all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
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