← The Commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away. 🔊
← They met with many difficulties−for instance, later in the year, when they harvested the corn, they had to tread it out in the ancient style and blow away the chaff with their breath, since the farm possessed no threshing machine−but the pigs with their cleverness and Boxer with his tremendous muscles always pulled them through. 🔊
← As soon as they were weaned, Napoleon took them away from their mothers, saying that he would make himself responsible for their education. 🔊
← And−I was a long way away, but I am almost certain I saw this−he was talking to you and you were allowing him to stroke your nose. 🔊
← "It isn't true!" repeated Mollie, but she could not look Clover in the face, and the next moment she took to her heels and galloped away into the field. 🔊
← Until now the animals had been about equally divided in their sympathies, but in a moment Snowball's eloquence had carried them away. 🔊
← At first no one had been able to imagine where these creatures came from, but the problem was soon solved: they were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately. 🔊
← They were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. 🔊
← Whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away. 🔊
← "Comrades!" cried Squealer, making little nervous skips, "a most terrible thing has been discovered. Snowball has sold himself to Frederick of Pinchfield Farm, who is even now plotting to attack us and take our farm away from us! 🔊
← When it was all over, the remaining animals, except for the pigs and dogs, crept away in a body. 🔊
← Meanwhile the timber was being carted away at high speed. When it was all gone, another special meeting was held in the barn for the animals to inspect Frederick's bank−notes. 🔊
← Slowly the breeze drifted it away. The windmill had ceased to exist! At this sight the animals' courage returned to them. 🔊
← With tears in their eyes they asked one another what they should do if their Leader were taken away from them. 🔊
← However, Benjamin and Clover could only be with Boxer after working hours, and it was in the middle of the day when the van came to take him away. 🔊
← "Quick, quick!" he shouted. "Come at once! They're taking Boxer away!" Without waiting for orders from the pig, the animals broke off work and raced back to the farm buildings. 🔊
← All the animals took up the cry of "Get out, Boxer, get out!" But the van was already gathering speed and drawing away from them. 🔊
← Some of the animals had noticed that the van which took Boxer away was marked "Horse Slaughterer," and had actually jumped to the conclusion that Boxer was being sent to the knacker's. 🔊
← Not one of them, not even the youngest, not even the newcomers who had been brought from farms ten or twenty miles away, ever ceased to marvel at that. 🔊
← Then, the applause having come to an end, the company took up their cards and continued the game that had been interrupted, and the animals crept silently away. 🔊