← As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings. 🔊
← It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of the way. 🔊
← Even the stupidest of them had already picked up the tune and a few of the words, and as for the clever ones, such as the pigs and dogs, they had the entire song by heart within a few minutes. 🔊
← It was as though they had never seen these things before, and even now they could hardly believe that it was all their own. 🔊
← And not an animal on the farm had stolen so much as a mouthful. All through that summer the work of the farm went like clockwork. 🔊
← There was much discussion as to what the battle should be called. In the end, it was named the Battle of the Cowshed, since that was where the ambush had been sprung. 🔊
← Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on−that is, badly. 🔊
← By the time he had finished speaking, there was no doubt as to which way the vote would go. 🔊
← They kept close to Napoleon. It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones. 🔊
← Their relations with the human race were now not quite the same as they had been before. 🔊
← There was no thought of rebellion or disobedience in her mind. She knew that, even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of Jones, and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings. 🔊
← And in rebuilding it they could not this time, as before, make use of the fallen stones. 🔊
← The winter was as cold as the last one had been, and food was even shorter. 🔊
← The young pigs were piebald, and as Napoleon was the only boar on the farm, it was possible to guess at their parentage. 🔊
← There were many more creatures on the farm now, though the increase was not so great as had been expected in earlier years. 🔊
← As for the others, their life, so far as they knew, was as it had always been. 🔊
← It might be that their lives were hard and that not all of their hopes had been fulfilled; but they were conscious that they were not as other animals. 🔊
← In the evening he returned to the farmhouse himself, but, as it was warm weather, told the sheep to stay where they were. 🔊
← But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?" 🔊
← But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemed to them that some strange thing was happening. 🔊