flee

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Everyone fled to his own sleepingplace. The birds jumped on to their perches, the animals settled down in the straw, and the whole farm was asleep in a moment. 🔊

But once again the men, with their sticks and their hobnailed boots, were too strong for them; and suddenly, at a squeal from Snowball, which was the signal for retreat, all the animals turned and fled through the gateway into the yard. 🔊

Do you not remember how, just at the moment when Jones and his men had got inside the yard, Snowball suddenly turned and fled, and many animals followed him? 🔊

At any rate, they remembered that at the critical moment of the battle Snowball had turned to flee. 🔊

The dog shrieked for mercy and the other two fled with their tails between their legs. 🔊

YEARS passed. The seasons came and went, the short animal lives fled by. A time came when there was no one who remembered the old days before the Rebellion, except Clover, Benjamin, Moses the raven, and a number of the pigs. 🔊

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