← Major continued: "I have little more to say. I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways. 🔊
← It had spread with astonishing speed. The human beings could not contain their rage when they heard this song, though they pretended to think it merely ridiculous. 🔊
← He did not give any reason for having changed his mind, but merely warned the animals that this extra task would mean very hard work, it might even be necessary to reduce their rations. 🔊
← A bed merely means a place to sleep in. A pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded. 🔊
← This was merely a legend which had been spread some time after the Battle of the Cowshed by Snowball himself. 🔊
← It now appeared that Snowball had not, as the animals had previously imagined, merely attempted to lose the Battle of the Cowshed by means of a stratagem, but had been openly fighting on Jones's side. 🔊
← "Comrades, comrades!" they shouted. "Don't take your own brother to his death! " But the stupid brutes, too ignorant to realise what was happening, merely set back their ears and quickened their pace. 🔊