← Clover made a sort of wall round them with her great foreleg, and the ducklings nestled down inside it and promptly fell asleep. 🔊
← The work of teaching and organising the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognised as being the cleverest of the animals. 🔊
← In past years Mr. Jones, although a hard master, had been a capable farmer, but of late he had fallen on evil days. 🔊
← But suddenly the dogs sitting round Napoleon let out deep, menacing growls, and the pigs fell silent and sat down again. 🔊
← They would meet in the public−houses and prove to one another by means of diagrams that the windmill was bound to fall down, or that if it did stand up, then that it would never work. 🔊
← Unable at first to speak, they stood gazing mournfully at the litter of fallen stone Napoleon paced to and fro in silence, occasionally snuffing at the ground. 🔊
← Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin. 🔊
← In January food fell short. The corn ration was drastically reduced, and it was announced that an extra potato ration would be issued to make up for it. 🔊
← And in rebuilding it they could not this time, as before, make use of the fallen stones. 🔊
← And sure enough, the rumour was true. A few minutes later two pigeons came racing in with the news: "Boxer has fallen! 🔊
← Here Squealer's demeanour suddenly changed. He fell silent for a moment, and his little eyes darted suspicious glances from side to side before he proceeded. 🔊