← Then they filed back to the farm buildings and halted in silence outside the door of the farmhouse. 🔊
← The others reproached her sharply, and they went outside. Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial, and the barrel of beer in the scullery was stove in with a kick from Boxer's hoof,−otherwise nothing in the house was touched. 🔊
← She was between the shafts of a smart dogcart painted red and black, which was standing outside a public−house. 🔊
← At this there was a terrible baying sound outside, and nine enormous dogs wearing brass−studded collars came bounding into the barn. 🔊
← He intended to take the whole burden upon his own shoulders. A Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, had agreed to act as intermediary between Animal Farm and the outside world, and would visit the farm every Monday morning to receive his instructions. 🔊
← Except through Whymper, there was as yet no contact between Animal Farm and the outside world, but there were constant rumours that Napoleon was about to enter into a definite business agreement either with Mr. Pilkington of Foxwood or with Mr. Frederick of Pinchfield−but never, it was noticed, with both simultaneously. 🔊
← The animals carried on as best they could with the rebuilding of the windmill, well knowing that the outside world was watching them and that the envious human beings would rejoice and triumph if the mill were not finished on time. 🔊
← Starvation seemed to stare them in the face. It was vitally necessary to conceal this fact from the outside world. 🔊
← He was deceived, and continued to report to the outside world that there was no food shortage on Animal Farm. 🔊
← A cry of lamentation went up. Straw was laid down outside the doors of the farmhouse, and the animals walked on tiptoe. 🔊
← "Boxer!" she cried. "Boxer! Boxer! Boxer!" And just at this moment, as though he had heard the uproar outside, Boxer's face, with the white stripe down his nose, appeared at the small window at the back of the van. 🔊
← But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemed to them that some strange thing was happening. 🔊
← The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. 🔊