← Jones and his men suddenly found themselves being butted and kicked from all sides. The situation was quite out of their control. 🔊
← They were just coming down the stairs when Mollie was discovered to be missing. Going back, the others found that she had remained behind in the best bedroom. 🔊
← And the behaviour of the cat was somewhat peculiar. It was soon noticed that when there was work to be done the cat could never be found. 🔊
← First came the hoisting of the flag. Snowball had found in the harness−room an old green tablecloth of Mrs. Jones's and had painted on it a hoof and a horn in white. 🔊
← It was also found that the stupider animals, such as the sheep, hens, and ducks, were unable to learn the Seven Commandments by heart. 🔊
← In the end, however, she was found hiding in her stall with her head buried among the hay in the manger. 🔊
← She had taken to flight as soon as the gun went off. And when the others came back from looking for her, it was to find that the stable−lad, who in fact was only stunned, had already recovered and made off. 🔊
← Mr. Jones's gun had been found lying in the mud, and it was known that there was a supply of cartridges in the farmhouse. 🔊
← Snowball had made a close study of some back numbers of the Farmer and Stockbreeder which he had found in the farmhouse, and was full of plans for innovations and improvements. 🔊
← The animals listened first to Napoleon, then to Snowball, and could not make up their minds which was right; indeed, they always found themselves in agreement with the one who was speaking at the moment. 🔊
← "Loyalty and obedience are more important. And as to the Battle of the Cowshed, I believe the time will come when we shall find that Snowball's part in it was much exaggerated. 🔊
← There was a good quarry of limestone on the farm, and plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses, so that all the materials for building were at hand. 🔊
← When the boulder began to slip and the animals cried out in despair at finding themselves dragged down the hill, it was always Boxer who strained himself against the rope and brought the boulder to a stop. 🔊
← In the morning the animals came out of their stalls to find that the flagstaff had been blown down and an elm tree at the foot of the orchard had been plucked up like a radish. 🔊
← He snuffed in every corner, in the barn, in the cow−shed, in the henhouses, in the vegetable garden, and found traces of Snowball almost everywhere. 🔊
← "That was our mistake, comrade. For we know now−it is all written down in the secret documents that we have found−that in reality he was trying to lure us to our doom." 🔊
← At last, feeling this to be in some way a substitute for the words she was unable to find, she began to sing Beasts of England. 🔊
← For the time being, certainly, it had been found necessary to make a readjustment of rations (Squealer always spoke of it as a "readjustment," never as a "reduction"), but in comparison with the days of Jones, the improvement was enormous. 🔊
← But by and large the animals enjoyed these celebrations. They found it comforting to be reminded that, after all, they were truly their own masters and that the work they did was for their own benefit. 🔊
← But all such doubts were now dispelled. Today he and his friends had visited Animal Farm and inspected every inch of it with their own eyes, and what did they find? 🔊