← And you, Clover, where are those four foals you bore, who should have been the support and pleasure of your old age? 🔊
← In return for your four confinements and all your labour in the fields, what have you ever had except your bare rations and a stall? 🔊
← For myself I do not grumble, for I am one of the lucky ones. I am twelve years old and have had over four hundred children. 🔊
← While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him. 🔊
← There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides. 🔊
← It was just then that Mr. Jones woke up. The next moment he and his four men were in the store−shed with whips in their hands, lashing out in all directions. 🔊
← They had not been milked for twenty−four hours, and their udders were almost bursting. 🔊
← FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD, was inscribed on the end wall of the barn, above the Seven Commandments and in bigger letters. 🔊
← When they had once got it by heart, the sheep developed a great liking for this maxim, and often as they lay in the field they would all start bleating "Four legs good, two legs bad! 🔊
← He was especially successful with the sheep. Of late the sheep had taken to bleating "Four legs good, two legs bad" both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. 🔊
← It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into "Four legs good, two legs bad" at crucial moments in Snowball's speeches. 🔊
← The four young pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished the Meetings raised their voices timidly, but they were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs. 🔊
← Four days later, in the late afternoon, Napoleon ordered all the animals to assemble in the yard. 🔊
← Napoleon now called upon them to confess their crimes. They were the same four pigs as had protested when Napoleon abolished the Sunday Meetings. 🔊
← But that society has now been established. Clearly this song has no longer any purpose." Frightened though they were, some of the animals might possibly have protested, but at this moment the sheep set up their usual bleating of "Four legs good, two legs bad," which went on for several minutes and put an end to the discussion. 🔊
← But at this moment the four pigeons, who had been sent out on the day before, returned, one of them bearing a scrap of paper from Pilkington. 🔊
← The sheep were the greatest devotees of the Spontaneous Demonstration, and if anyone complained (as a few animals sometimes did, when no pigs or dogs were near) that they wasted time and meant a lot of standing about in the cold, the sheep were sure to silence him with a tremendous bleating of "Four legs good, two legs bad!" 🔊
← Napoleon was now a mature boar of twenty−four stone. Squealer was so fat that he could with difficulty see out of his eyes. 🔊
← But just at that moment, as though at a signal, all the sheep burst out into a tremendous bleating of− "Four legs good, two legs better! 🔊
← Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three. But what was it that seemed to be melting and changing? 🔊