← Each was sold at a year old−you will never see one of them again. 🔊
← Napoleon then led them back to the store−shed and served out a double ration of corn to everybody, with two biscuits for each dog. 🔊
← Even when it was resolved−a thing no one could object to in itself−to set aside the small paddock behind the orchard as a home of rest for animals who were past work, there was a stormy debate over the correct retiring age for each class of animal. 🔊
← At heart, each of them was secretly wondering whether he could not somehow turn Jones's misfortune to his own advantage. 🔊
← These two disliked each other so much that it was difficult for them to come to any agreement, even in defence of their own interests. 🔊
← The animals had now reassembled in the wildest excitement, each recounting his own exploits in the battle at the top of his voice. 🔊
← Each had his own following, and there were some violent debates. At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. 🔊
← In these days Napoleon rarely appeared in public, but spent all his time in the farmhouse, which was guarded at each door by fierce−looking dogs. 🔊
← If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of Major's speech. 🔊
← They were executed immediately, and fresh precautions for Napoleon's safety were taken. Four dogs guarded his bed at night, one at each corner, and a young pig named Pinkeye was given the task of tasting all his food before he ate it, lest it should be poisoned. 🔊
← The animals filed slowly past, and each gazed his fill. And Boxer put out his nose to sniff at the bank−notes, and the flimsy white things stirred and rustled in his breath. 🔊
← Two whole days were given over to celebrations. There were songs, speeches, and more firing of the gun, and a special gift of an apple was bestowed on every animal, with two ounces of corn for each bird and three biscuits for each dog. 🔊
← There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously. 🔊