← Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings. 🔊
← Major continued: "I have little more to say. I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways. 🔊
← They were so delighted with the song that they sang it right through five times in succession, and might have continued singing it all night if they had not been interrupted. 🔊
← They continued to behave very much as before, and when treated with generosity, simply took advantage of it. 🔊
← However, these stories were never fully believed. Rumours of a wonderful farm, where the human beings had been turned out and the animals managed their own affairs, continued to circulate in vague and distorted forms, and throughout that year a wave of rebelliousness ran through the countryside. 🔊
← He was deceived, and continued to report to the outside world that there was no food shortage on Animal Farm. 🔊
← Nevertheless, feeling against Frederick continued to run high. One Sunday morning Napoleon appeared in the barn and explained that he had never at any time contemplated selling the pile of timber to Frederick; he considered it beneath his dignity, he said, to have dealings with scoundrels of that description. 🔊
← Sometimes on the slope leading to the top of the quarry, when he braced his muscles against the weight of some vast boulder, it seemed that nothing kept him on his feet except the will to continue. 🔊
← 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. 🔊