← Nobody shirked−or almost nobody. Mollie, it was true, was not good at getting up in the mornings, and had a way of leaving work early on the ground that there was a stone in her hoof. 🔊
← Even so, it was found necessary to leave certain tasks undone. The harvest was a little less successful than in the previous year, and two fields which should have been sown with roots in the early summer were not sown because the ploughing had not been completed early enough. 🔊
← He was Jones's secret agent all the time. It has all been proved by documents which he left behind him and which we have only just discovered. 🔊
← The plot was for Snowball, at the critical moment, to give the signal for flight and leave the field to the enemy. 🔊
← Since Jones had left the farm, until today, no animal had killed another animal. Not even a rat had been killed. 🔊
← He had, he said, only one real ambition left−to see the windmill well under way before he reached the age for retirement. 🔊
← At the appointed time the animals would leave their work and march round the precincts of the farm in military formation, with the pigs leading, then the horses, then the cows, then the sheep, and then the poultry. 🔊
← At such times his lips were seen to form the words, "I will work harder"; he had no voice left. 🔊
← The animals felt a little uneasy at this. Except for Mollie and Snowball, no other animal had ever left the farm, and they did not like to think of their sick comrade in the hands of human beings. 🔊
← But alas! his strength had left him; and in a few moments the sound of drumming hoofs grew fainter and died away. 🔊
← There was enthusiastic cheering and stamping of feet. Napoleon was so gratified that he left his place and came round the table to clink his mug against Mr. Pilkington's before emptying it. 🔊