← Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 🔊
← Sometimes the work was hard; the implements had been designed for human beings and not for animals, and it was a great drawback that no animal was able to use any tool that involved standing on his hind legs. 🔊
← The birds at first objected, since it seemed to them that they also had two legs, but Snowball proved to them that this was not so. 🔊
← It should therefore be regarded as a leg. The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief." 🔊
← 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! 🔊
← Four legs good, two legs bad!" and keep it up for hours on end, never growing tired of it. 🔊
← As the human beings approached the farm buildings, Snowball launched his first attack. All the pigeons, to the number of thirty−five, flew to and fro over the men's heads and muted upon them from mid−air; and while the men were dealing with this, the geese, who had been hiding behind the hedge, rushed out and pecked viciously at the calves of their legs. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← He walked heavily round the shed, looked closely at every detail of the plans and snuffed at them once or twice, then stood for a little while contemplating them out of the corner of his eye; then suddenly he lifted his leg, urinated over the plans, and walked out without uttering a word. 🔊
← Then the sheep broke out into a tremendous bleating of "Four legs good, two legs bad!" 🔊
← There seemed no way of doing this except with picks and crowbars, which no animal could use, because no animal could stand on his hind legs. 🔊
← The dog shrieked for mercy and the other two fled with their tails between their legs. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← said Boxer. His knees were bleeding, he had lost a shoe and split his hoof, and a dozen pellets had lodged themselves in his hind leg. 🔊
← 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!" 🔊
← Then they saw what Clover had seen. It was a pig walking on his hind legs. 🔊
← And a moment later, out from the door of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs. 🔊
← 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! 🔊