← The men had milked the cows in the early morning and then had gone out rabbiting, without bothering to feed the animals. 🔊
← The animals rushed to the top of it and gazed round them in the clear morning light. 🔊
← From morning to night he was pushing and pulling, always at the spot where the work was hardest. 🔊
← He had made an arrangement with one of the cockerels to call him in the mornings half an hour earlier than anyone else, and would put in some volunteer labour at whatever seemed to be most needed, before the regular day's work began. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← This was run up the flagstaff in the farmhouse garden every Sunday morning. The flag was green, Snowball explained, to represent the green fields of England, while the hoof and horn signified the future Republic of the Animals which would arise when the human race had been finally overthrown. 🔊
← "Mollie," she said, "I have something very serious to say to you. This morning I saw you looking over the hedge that divides Animal Farm from Foxwood. 🔊
← He announced that from now on the Sunday−morning Meetings would come to an end. 🔊
← These would meet in private and afterwards communicate their decisions to the others. The animals would still assemble on Sunday mornings to salute the flag, sing Beasts of England, and receive their orders for the week; but there would be no more debates. 🔊
← Every Sunday morning at ten o'clock the animals assembled in the big barn to receive their orders for the week. 🔊
← He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three−quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour. 🔊
← How these were to be procured, no one was able to imagine. One Sunday morning, when the animals assembled to receive their orders, Napoleon announced that he had decided upon a new policy. 🔊
← And when, some days afterwards, it was announced that from now on the pigs would get up an hour later in the mornings than the other animals, no complaint was made about that either. 🔊
← In the morning the animals came out of their stalls to find that the flagstaff had been blown down and an elm tree at the foot of the orchard had been plucked up like a radish. 🔊
← Frequently he did not even appear on Sunday mornings, but issued his orders through one of the other pigs, usually Squealer. 🔊
← From now onwards I shall get up a full hour earlier in the mornings." And he moved off at his lumbering trot and made for the quarry. 🔊
← and this was sung every Sunday morning after the hoisting of the flag. But somehow neither the words nor the tune ever seemed to the animals to come up to Beasts of England. 🔊
← The very next morning the attack came. The animals were at breakfast when the look−outs came racing in with the news that Frederick and his followers had already come through the five−barred gate. 🔊
← But in the morning a deep silence hung over the farmhouse. Not a pig appeared to be stirring. 🔊
← By the evening, however, Napoleon appeared to be somewhat better, and the following morning Squealer was able to tell them that he was well on the way to recovery. 🔊