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Riches more than mind can picture, Wheat and barley, oats and hay, Clover, beans, and mangel−wurzels Shall be ours upon that day. 🔊

The animals had never heard of anything of this kind before (for the farm was an old−fashioned one and had only the most primitive machinery), and they listened in astonishment while Snowball conjured up pictures of fantastic machines which would do their work for them while they grazed at their ease in the fields or improved their minds with reading and conversation. 🔊

In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour was lifted from the animals' backs. 🔊

If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of Major's speech. 🔊

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