← Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty. 🔊
← When Mr. Jones got back he immediately went to sleep on the drawing−room sofa with the News of the World over his face, so that when evening came, the animals were still unfed. 🔊
← All the men were gone except one. Back in the yard Boxer was pawing with his hoof at the stable−lad who lay face down in the mud, trying to turn him over. 🔊
← cried Mollie, beginning to prance about and paw the ground. "Mollie! Look me in the face. 🔊
← "It isn't true!" repeated Mollie, but she could not look Clover in the face, and the next moment she took to her heels and galloped away into the field. 🔊
← A fat red−faced man in check breeches and gaiters, who looked like a publican, was stroking her nose and feeding her with sugar. 🔊
← The rest of the animals sat facing them in the main body of the barn. 🔊
← Starvation seemed to stare them in the face. It was vitally necessary to conceal this fact from the outside world. 🔊
← In the evening Squealer called them together, and with an alarmed expression on his face told them that he had some serious news to report. 🔊
← It was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of Jones's gun. 🔊
← Three days later there was a terrible hullabaloo. Whymper, his face deadly pale, came racing up the path on his bicycle, flung it down in the yard and rushed straight into the farmhouse. 🔊
← The animals could not face the terrible explosions and the stinging pellets, and in spite of the efforts of Napoleon and Boxer to rally them, they were soon driven back. 🔊
← The pigeons swirled into the air, and all the animals, except Napoleon, flung themselves flat on their bellies and hid their faces. 🔊
← "Boxer!" she cried. "Boxer! Boxer! Boxer!" And just at this moment, as though he had heard the uproar outside, Boxer's face, with the white stripe down his nose, appeared at the small window at the back of the van. 🔊
← It was uncertain whether Boxer had understood what Clover had said. But a moment later his face disappeared from the window and there was the sound of a tremendous drumming of hoofs inside the van. 🔊
← Boxer's face did not reappear at the window. Too late, someone thought of racing ahead and shutting the five−barred gate; but in another moment the van was through it and rapidly disappearing down the road. 🔊
← The animals were weeding the turnip field. They worked diligently hardly raising their faces from the ground, and not knowing whether to be more frightened of the pigs or of the human visitors. 🔊
← A large jug was circulating, and the mugs were being refilled with beer. No one noticed the wondering faces of the animals that gazed in at the window. 🔊
← What was it that had altered in the faces of the pigs? Clover's old dim eyes flitted from one face to another. 🔊
← Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. 🔊