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1  But after the second time it was different.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  In its second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy.
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3  The second danger, also, is only a theoretical one.
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4  Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary.
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5  He turned round, and for a second almost failed to recognize her.
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6  He dipped the pen into the ink and then faltered for just a second.
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7  The second distinguishing mark of Newspeak grammar was its regularity.
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8  The second thing for you to realize is that power is power over human beings.
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9  To think, to think, even with a split second left--to think was the only hope.
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10  He could have arranged to meet her a second time if either of them had wanted to.
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11  The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary.
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12  For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story.
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13  At their second trial they confessed to all their old crimes over again, with a whole string of new ones.
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14  The other three were routine matters, though the second one would probably mean some tedious wading through lists of figures.
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15  Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room.
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16  These translations were a slow and difficult business, and it was not expected that they would be finished before the first or second decade of the twenty-first century.
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17  This was the second time in three weeks that he had missed an evening at the Community Centre: a rash act, since you could be certain that the number of your attendances at the Centre was carefully checked.
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