← Jones was hurled into a pile of dung and his gun flew out of his hands. 🔊
← Hidden under the straw was a little pile of lump sugar and several bunches of ribbon of different colours. 🔊
← A bed merely means a place to sleep in. A pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded. 🔊
← It happened that there was in the yard a pile of timber which had been stacked there ten years earlier when a beech spinney was cleared. 🔊
← They were all slain on the spot. And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon's feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones. 🔊
← The pile of timber was still unsold. Of the two, Frederick was the more anxious to get hold of it, but he would not offer a reasonable price. 🔊
← At about the same time it was given out that Napoleon had arranged to sell the pile of timber to Mr. Pilkington; he was also going to enter into a regular agreement for the exchange of certain products between Animal Farm and Foxwood. 🔊
← Nevertheless, feeling against Frederick continued to run high. One Sunday morning Napoleon appeared in the barn and explained that he had never at any time contemplated selling the pile of timber to Frederick; he considered it beneath his dignity, he said, to have dealings with scoundrels of that description. 🔊
← They were struck dumb with surprise when Napoleon announced that he had sold the pile of timber to Frederick. 🔊
← Smiling beatifically, and wearing both his decorations, Napoleon reposed on a bed of straw on the platform, with the money at his side, neatly piled on a china dish from the farmhouse kitchen. 🔊