← But the pigs were so clever that they could think of a way round every difficulty. 🔊
← The birds at first objected, since it seemed to them that they also had two legs, but Snowball proved to them that this was not so. 🔊
← At this some of the other animals murmured, but it was no use. All the pigs were in full agreement on this point, even Snowball and Napoleon. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← (How these were to be procured, Snowball did not say.) But he maintained that it could all be done in a year. 🔊
← They could only be traced for a few yards, but appeared to lead to a hole in the hedge. 🔊
← "But he was wounded," said Boxer. "We all saw him running with blood." "That was part of the arrangement!" 🔊
← "What he has done since is different. But I believe that at the Battle of the Cowshed he was a good comrade." 🔊
← In the old days there had often been scenes of bloodshed equally terrible, but it seemed to all of them that it was far worse now that it was happening among themselves. 🔊
← But still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled. 🔊
← Boldly enough the animals sallied forth to meet them, but this time they did not have the easy victory that they had had in the Battle of the Cowshed. 🔊
← "But they have destroyed the windmill. And we had worked on it for two years!" 🔊
← But for the first time it occurred to him that he was eleven years old and that perhaps his great muscles were not quite what they had once been. 🔊
← But doubtless it had been worse in the old days. They were glad to believe so. 🔊
← Some day it was coming: it might not be soon, it might not be within the lifetime of any animal now living, but still it was coming. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. 🔊