1 However, in his present position he was invisible.
2 About twenty or thirty of them a week were falling on London at present.
3 Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
4 At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little.
5 He could be heard, of course, but so long as he stayed in his present position he could not be seen.
6 Sometimes it was buttons, sometimes it was darning wool, sometimes it was shoelaces; at present it was razor blades.
7 Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours.
8 Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty at the end of the present week.
9 Talking to her, he realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant.
10 Apart from very short notes, it was usual to dictate everything into the speak-write which was of course impossible for his present purpose.
11 What appealed to him about it was not so much its beauty as the air it seemed to possess of belonging to an age quite different from the present one.
12 Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him: or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.
13 Motives which were already present to some small extent in the great wars of the early twentieth century have now become dominant and are consciously recognized and acted upon.
14 To understand the nature of the present war--for in spite of the regrouping which occurs every few years, it is always the same war--one must realize in the first place that it is impossible for it to be decisive.
15 To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.
16 Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.
17 There was the usual boiled-cabbage smell, common to the whole building, but it was shot through by a sharper reek of sweat, which--one knew this at the first sniff, though it was hard to say how--was the sweat of some person not present at the moment.
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