defeat

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It was fully realised that though the human beings had been defeated in the Battle of the Cowshed they might make another and more determined attempt to recapture the farm and reinstate Mr. Jones. 🔊

They had all the more reason for doing so because the news of their defeat had spread across the countryside and made the animals on the neighbouring farms more restive than ever. 🔊

To my mind this explains a great deal, comrades. Did we not see for ourselves how he attemptedfortunately without successto get us defeated and destroyed at the Battle of the Cowshed?" 🔊

The enemy both external and internal has been defeated. In Beasts of England we expressed our longing for a better society in days to come. 🔊

And when they heard the gun booming and saw the green flag fluttering at the masthead, their hearts swelled with imperishable pride, and the talk turned always towards the old heroic days, the expulsion of Jones, the writing of the Seven Commandments, the great battles in which the human invaders had been defeated. 🔊

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