← He was twelve years old and had lately grown rather stout, but he was still a majestic−looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut. 🔊
← As for the dogs, when they grow old and toothless, Jones ties a brick round their necks and drowns them in the nearest pond. 🔊
← In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges. 🔊
← Four legs good, two legs bad!" and keep it up for hours on end, never growing tired of it. 🔊
← Napoleon took no interest in Snowball's committees. He said that the education of the young was more important than anything that could be done for those who were already grown up. 🔊
← Gradually the plans grew into a complicated mass of cranks and cog−wheels, covering more than half the floor, which the other animals found completely unintelligible but very impressive. 🔊
← Though not yet full−grown, they were huge dogs, and as fierce−looking as wolves. 🔊
← Only old Benjamin refused to grow enthusiastic about the windmill, though, as usual, he would utter nothing beyond the cryptic remark that donkeys live a long time. 🔊
← His tail had grown rigid and twitched sharply from side to side, a sign in him of intense mental activity. 🔊
← Had I a sucking−pig, Ere he had grown as big Even as a pint bottle or as a rolling−pin, He should have learned to be Faithful and true to thee, Yes, his first squeak should be "Comrade Napoleon!" 🔊
← As the summer wore on, and the windmill neared completion, the rumours of an impending treacherous attack grew stronger and stronger. 🔊
← He even claimed to have been there on one of his higher flights, and to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges. 🔊
← The others said, "Boxer will pick up when the spring grass comes on"; but the spring came and Boxer grew no fatter. 🔊
← To tell you the truth, I had been looking forward to my retirement. And perhaps, as Benjamin is growing old too, they will let him retire at the same time and be a companion to me." 🔊
← But alas! his strength had left him; and in a few moments the sound of drumming hoofs grew fainter and died away. 🔊
← Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer−except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs. 🔊