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1  It was saccharine flavoured with cloves, the speciality of the cafe.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
2  They were sitting in silence before glasses of the gin flavoured with cloves which was the speciality of the cafe.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
3  At six--a year early, by a special relaxation of the rules--he had joined the Spies, at nine he had been a troop leader.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
4  It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
5  But the special function of certain Newspeak words, of which OLDTHINK was one, was not so much to express meanings as to destroy them.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
6  There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers, and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
7  At present only music was coming out of it, but there was a possibility that at any moment there might be a special bulletin from the Ministry of Peace.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
8  Meanwhile the fact that there IS no danger of conquest makes possible the denial of reality which is the special feature of Ingsoc and its rival systems of thought.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
9  A certain Comrade Withers, a prominent member of the Inner Party, had been singled out for special mention and awarded a decoration, the Order of Conspicuous Merit, Second Class.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
10  You have imagined, probably, a huge underworld of conspirators, meeting secretly in cellars, scribbling messages on walls, recognizing one another by codewords or by special movements of the hand.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
11  In the C vocabulary, which consisted of scientific and technical words, it might be necessary to give specialized names to certain sexual aberrations, but the ordinary citizen had no need of them.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
12  Any scientific worker or technician could find all the words he needed in the list devoted to his own speciality, but he seldom had more than a smattering of the words occurring in the other lists.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
13  He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
14  The great purges involving thousands of people, with public trials of traitors and thought-criminals who made abject confession of their crimes and were afterwards executed, were special show-pieces not occurring oftener than once in a couple of years.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
15  It was still true that men were not equal in their native talents and that functions had to be specialized in ways that favoured some individuals against others; but there was no longer any real need for class distinctions or for large differences of wealth.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
16  Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
17  The scientist of today is either a mixture of psychologist and inquisitor, studying with real ordinary minuteness the meaning of facial expressions, gestures, and tones of voice, and testing the truth-producing effects of drugs, shock therapy, hypnosis, and physical torture; or he is chemist, physicist, or biologist concerned only with such branches of his special subject as are relevant to the taking of life.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
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