← ", and the pigs had great difficulty in making them see that this was contrary to the spirit of Animalism. 🔊
← Their most faithful disciples were the two cart−horses, Boxer and Clover. These two had great difficulty in thinking anything out for themselves, but having once accepted the pigs as their teachers, they absorbed everything that they were told, and passed it on to the other animals by simple arguments. 🔊
← With some difficulty (for it is not easy for a pig to balance himself on a ladder) Snowball climbed up and set to work, with Squealer a few rungs below him holding the paint−pot. 🔊
← But the pigs were so clever that they could think of a way round every difficulty. 🔊
← They met with many difficulties−for instance, later in the year, when they harvested the corn, they had to tread it out in the ancient style and blow away the chaff with their breath, since the farm possessed no threshing machine−but the pigs with their cleverness and Boxer with his tremendous muscles always pulled them through. 🔊
← It was possible to foresee that the coming winter would be a hard one. The windmill presented unexpected difficulties. 🔊
← Does it not say something about never sleeping in a bed?" With some difficulty Muriel spelt it out. 🔊
← In the teeth of every difficulty, in spite of inexperience, of primitive implements, of bad luck and of Snowball's treachery, the work had been finished punctually to the very day! 🔊
← In any case he had no difficulty in proving to the other animals that they were not in reality short of food, whatever the appearances might be. 🔊
← And about half an hour later, when Boxer had somewhat recovered, he was with difficulty got on to his feet, and managed to limp back to his stall, where Clover and Benjamin had prepared a good bed of straw for him. 🔊
← Napoleon was now a mature boar of twenty−four stone. Squealer was so fat that he could with difficulty see out of his eyes. 🔊
← Their struggles and their difficulties were one. Was not the labour problem the same everywhere? 🔊