← When Major saw that they had all made themselves comfortable and were waiting attentively, he cleared his throat and began: "Comrades, you have heard already about the strange dream that I had last night. 🔊
← "Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings? 🔊
← It is called Beasts of England." Old Major cleared his throat and began to sing. 🔊
← The animals rushed to the top of it and gazed round them in the clear morning light. 🔊
← The mystery of where the milk went to was soon cleared up. It was mixed every day into the pigs' mash. 🔊
← At a moment when the opening was clear, the men were glad enough to rush out of the yard and make a bolt for the main road. 🔊
← It was almost half built now. After the harvest there was a stretch of clear dry weather, and the animals toiled harder than ever, thinking it well worth while to plod to and fro all day with blocks of stone if by doing so they could raise the walls another foot. 🔊
← It happened that there was in the yard a pile of timber which had been stacked there ten years earlier when a beech spinney was cleared. 🔊
← It was a clear spring evening. The grass and the bursting hedges were gilded by the level rays of the sun. 🔊