← At first they pretended to laugh to scorn the idea of animals managing a farm for themselves. 🔊
← Only after weeks of vain effort did the right idea occur to somebody−namely, to utilise the force of gravity. 🔊
← None of the animals could form any idea as to what this meant, except old Benjamin, who nodded his muzzle with a knowing air, and seemed to understand, but would say nothing. 🔊
← Napoleon had denounced such ideas as contrary to the spirit of Animalism. The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally. 🔊
← Unfortunate incidents had occurred, mistaken ideas had been current. It had been felt that the existence of a farm owned and operated by pigs was somehow abnormal and was liable to have an unsettling effect in the neighbourhood. 🔊