← ", and the pigs had great difficulty in making them see that this was contrary to the spirit of Animalism. 🔊
← Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. 🔊
← When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say. 🔊
← Apart from the disputes over the windmill, there was the question of the defence of the farm. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← Again the animals seemed to remember that a resolution against this had been passed in the early days, and again Squealer was able to convince them that this was not the case. 🔊
← It was absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in. 🔊
← "What he has done since is different. But I believe that at the Battle of the Cowshed he was a good comrade." 🔊
← But still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled. 🔊
← It was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of Jones's gun. 🔊
← There were times when it seemed to the animals that they worked longer hours and fed no better than they had done in Jones's day. 🔊
← The whole of the big pasture, including the windmill, was in the hands of the enemy. 🔊
← The winter was as cold as the last one had been, and food was even shorter. 🔊
← For the time being, the young pigs were given their instruction by Napoleon himself in the farmhouse kitchen. 🔊
← In nothing that he said or did was there any sign that his strength was not what it had been. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← They are taking Boxer to the knacker's! " 🔊
← Much of this work was of a kind that the other animals were too ignorant to understand. 🔊
← 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. 🔊