← In the end they finished the harvest in two days' less time than it had usually taken Jones and his men. 🔊
← By the time he had finished speaking, there was no doubt as to which way the vote would go. 🔊
← In their spare moments the animals would walk round and round the half−finished mill, admiring the strength and perpendicularity of its walls and marvelling that they should ever have been able to build anything so imposing. 🔊
← The animals carried on as best they could with the rebuilding of the windmill, well knowing that the outside world was watching them and that the envious human beings would rejoice and triumph if the mill were not finished on time. 🔊
← When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess. 🔊
← They had made their way on to the little knoll where the half−finished windmill stood, and with one accord they all lay down as though huddling together for warmth−Clover, Muriel, Benjamin, the cows, the sheep, and a whole flock of geese and hens−everyone, indeed, except the cat, who had suddenly disappeared just before Napoleon ordered the animals to assemble. 🔊
← They had just finished singing it for the third time when Squealer, attended by two dogs, approached them with the air of having something important to say. 🔊
← To rebuild the windmill, with walls twice as thick as before, and to finish it by the appointed date, together with the regular work of the farm, was a tremendous labour. 🔊
← In the autumn, by a tremendous, exhausting effort−for the harvest had to be gathered at almost the same time−the windmill was finished. 🔊
← In the teeth of every difficulty, in spite of inexperience, of primitive implements, of bad luck and of Snowball's treachery, the work had been finished punctually to the very day! 🔊
← "It does not matter. I think you will be able to finish the windmill without me. 🔊
← "I was at his bedside at the very last. And at the end, almost too weak to speak, he whispered in my ear that his sole sorrow was to have passed on before the windmill was finished. 🔊
← It was used for milling corn, and brought in a handsome money profit. The animals were hard at work building yet another windmill; when that one was finished, so it was said, the dynamos would be installed. 🔊
← It was just after the sheep had returned, on a pleasant evening when the animals had finished work and were making their way back to the farm buildings, that the terrified neighing of a horse sounded from the yard. 🔊