← In the end they finished the harvest in two days' less time than it had usually taken Jones and his men. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, at least they did not have less. 🔊
← The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever. 🔊
← All the same, there were days when they felt that they would sooner have had less figures and more food. 🔊
← Clover treated the hoof with poultices of herbs which she prepared by chewing them, and both she and Benjamin urged Boxer to work less hard. 🔊
← Reading out the figures in a shrill, rapid voice, he proved to them in detail that they had more oats, more hay, more turnips than they had had in Jones's day, that they worked shorter hours, that their drinking water was of better quality, that they lived longer, that a larger proportion of their young ones survived infancy, and that they had more straw in their stalls and suffered less from fleas. 🔊
← It was only his appearance that was a little altered; his hide was less shiny than it had used to be, and his great haunches seemed to have shrunken. 🔊
← He believed that he was right in saying that the lower animals on Animal Farm did more work and received less food than any animals in the county. 🔊