← "Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? 🔊
← It was as though they had never seen these things before, and even now they could hardly believe that it was all their own. 🔊
← This was to be the name of the farm from now onwards. After this they went back to the farm buildings, where Snowball and Napoleon sent for a ladder which they caused to be set against the end wall of the big barn. 🔊
← Boxer was the admiration of everybody. He had been a hard worker even in Jones's time, but now he seemed more like three horses than one; there were days when the entire work of the farm seemed to rest on his mighty shoulders. 🔊
← Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. 🔊
← He announced that from now on the Sunday−morning Meetings would come to an end. 🔊
← Now that Snowball was out of the way, the plan could go forward without his interference. 🔊
← Their relations with the human race were now not quite the same as they had been before. 🔊
← "You have heard then, comrades," he said, "that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← The three hens who had been the ringleaders in the attempted rebellion over the eggs now came forward and stated that Snowball had appeared to them in a dream and incited them to disobey Napoleon's orders. 🔊
← In the old days there had often been scenes of bloodshed equally terrible, but it seemed to all of them that it was far worse now that it was happening among themselves. 🔊
← Besides, in those days they had been slaves and now they were free, and that made all the difference, as Squealer did not fail to point out. 🔊
← There were many more creatures on the farm now, though the increase was not so great as had been expected in earlier years. 🔊
← Some day it was coming: it might not be soon, it might not be within the lifetime of any animal now living, but still it was coming. 🔊
← What could be happening in there, now that for the first time animals and human beings were meeting on terms of equality? 🔊
← It was a source of great satisfaction to him, he said−and, he was sure, to all others present−to feel that a long period of mistrust and misunderstanding had now come to an end. 🔊
← And now, he said finally, he would ask the company to rise to their feet and make certain that their glasses were full. 🔊
← Mr. Pilkington had referred throughout to "Animal Farm." He could not of course know−for he, Napoleon, was only now for the first time announcing it−that the name "Animal Farm" had been abolished. 🔊
← Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. 🔊