← Gradually the plans grew into a complicated mass of cranks and cog−wheels, covering more than half the floor, which the other animals found completely unintelligible but very impressive. 🔊
← SNOWBALL!" he suddenly roared in a voice of thunder. "Snowball has done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year. 🔊
← Then it was discovered that the greater part of the potato crop had been frosted in the clamps, which had not been covered thickly enough. 🔊
← In addition, Napoleon ordered the almost empty bins in the store−shed to be filled nearly to the brim with sand, which was then covered up with what remained of the grain and meal. 🔊
← The animals were so disturbed that they could hardly sleep in their stalls. Every night, it was said, he came creeping in under cover of darkness and performed all kinds of mischief. 🔊
← And when the nine dogs of Napoleon's own bodyguard, whom he had instructed to make a detour under cover of the hedge, suddenly appeared on the men's flank, baying ferociously, panic overtook them. 🔊
← These were large sheets of paper which had to be closely covered with writing, and as soon as they were so covered, they were burnt in the furnace. 🔊