← "Now, comrades," cried Snowball, throwing down the paint−brush, "to the hayfield! Let us make it a point of honour to get in the harvest more quickly than Jones and his men could do." 🔊
← Do you give me your word of honour that that man was not stroking your nose?" 🔊
← BOXER'S split hoof was a long time in healing. They had started the rebuilding of the windmill the day after the victory celebrations were ended. Boxer refused to take even a day off work, and made it a point of honour not to let it be seen that he was in pain. 🔊
← Afterwards there were recitations of poems composed in Napoleon's honour, and a speech by Squealer giving particulars of the latest increases in the production of foodstuffs, and on occasion a shot was fired from the gun. 🔊
← Napoleon himself appeared at the meeting on the following Sunday morning and pronounced a short oration in Boxer's honour. 🔊
← And in a few days' time the pigs intended to hold a memorial banquet in Boxer's honour. 🔊
← And yet the animals never gave up hope. More, they never lost, even for an instant, their sense of honour and privilege in being members of Animal Farm. 🔊
← There, round the long table, sat half a dozen farmers and half a dozen of the more eminent pigs, Napoleon himself occupying the seat of honour at the head of the table. 🔊
← This farm which he had the honour to control, he added, was a co−operative enterprise. 🔊