creature

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"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. 🔊

It is all lies. Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. 🔊

The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbitsare they our friends or our enemies? 🔊

They had never seen animals behave like this before, and this sudden uprising of creatures whom they were used to thrashing and maltreating just as they chose, frightened them almost out of their wits. 🔊

On the whole, these projects were a failure. The attempt to tame the wild creatures, for instance, broke down almost immediately. 🔊

At first no one had been able to imagine where these creatures came from, but the problem was soon solved: they were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately. 🔊

Thou are the giver of All that thy creatures love, Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon; Every beast great or small Sleeps at peace in his stall, Thou watchest over all, Comrade Napoleon! 🔊

There were many more creatures on the farm now, though the increase was not so great as had been expected in earlier years. 🔊

Perhaps this was partly because there were so many pigs and so many dogs. It was not that these creatures did not work, after their fashion. 🔊

No creature among them went upon two legs. No creature called any other creature "Master." 🔊

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. 🔊

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