← While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him. 🔊
← Silent and terrified, the animals crept back into the barn. In a moment the dogs came bounding back. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← The cows declared unanimously that Snowball crept into their stalls and milked them in their sleep. 🔊
← When it was all over, the remaining animals, except for the pigs and dogs, crept away in a body. 🔊
← With one accord they began to creep as quietly as possible into the farmhouse garden. 🔊
← 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. 🔊