HIGH in Classic Quotes

1  The room where he had been interrogated by O'Brien was high up near the roof.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5

2  It was not very skilfully done, but Winston's standards in such matters were not high.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4

3  He was holding the lamp high up, so as to illuminate the whole room, and in the warm dim light the place looked curiously inviting.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

4  He moved himself mentally from place to place, and tried to determine by the feeling of his body whether he was perched high in the air or buried deep underground.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1

5  It had no caption, and represented simply the monstrous figure of a Eurasian soldier, three or four metres high, striding forward with expressionless Mongolian face and enormous boots, a submachine gun pointed from his hip.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5

6  The June sun was still high in the sky, and in the sun-filled court below, a monstrous woman, solid as a Norman pillar, with brawny red forearms and a sacking apron strapped about her middle, was stumping to and fro between a washtub and a clothes line, pegging out a series of square white things which Winston recognized as babies' diapers.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4