← At the beginning they met with much stupidity and apathy. Some of the animals talked of the duty of loyalty to Mr. Jones, whom they referred to as "Master," or made elementary remarks such as "Mr. Jones feeds us. 🔊
← For whole days at a time he would lounge in his Windsor chair in the kitchen, reading the newspapers, drinking, and occasionally feeding Moses on crusts of bread soaked in beer. 🔊
← The men had milked the cows in the early morning and then had gone out rabbiting, without bothering to feed the animals. 🔊
← 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 advantage of only having to feed themselves, and not having to support five extravagant human beings as well, was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it. 🔊
← There were times when it seemed to the animals that they worked longer hours and fed no better than they had done in Jones's day. 🔊
← There were many more mouths to feed now. In the autumn the four sows had all littered about simultaneously, producing thirty−one young pigs between them. 🔊
← If they went hungry, it was not from feeding tyrannical human beings; if they worked hard, at least they worked for themselves. 🔊