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1  You were abolished, annihilated: VAPORIZED was the usual word.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
2  On the day after that she was in the canteen at the usual time, but with three other girls and immediately under a telescreen.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
3  Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
4  These resembled the scientific terms in use today, and were constructed from the same roots, but the usual care was taken to define them rigidly and strip them of undesirable meanings.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
5  As often happened, they had vanished for a year or more, so that one did not know whether they were alive or dead, and then had suddenly been brought forth to incriminate themselves in the usual way.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
6  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.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
7  He might turn the speech into the usual denunciation of traitors and thought-criminals, but that was a little too obvious, while to invent a victory at the front, or some triumph of over-production in the Ninth Three-Year Plan, might complicate the records too much.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4