← The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master. 🔊
← These two disagreed at every point where disagreement was possible. If one of them suggested sowing a bigger acreage with barley, the other was certain to demand a bigger acreage of oats, and if one of them said that such and such a field was just right for cabbages, the other would declare that it was useless for anything except roots. 🔊
← It was possible to foresee that the coming winter would be a hard one. The windmill presented unexpected difficulties. 🔊
← The animals watched his coming and going with a kind of dread, and avoided him as much as possible. 🔊
← The young pigs were piebald, and as Napoleon was the only boar on the farm, it was possible to guess at their parentage. 🔊
← It had not been possible, he said, to bring back their lamented comrade's remains for interment on the farm, but he had ordered a large wreath to be made from the laurels in the farmhouse garden and sent down to be placed on Boxer's grave. 🔊
← With one accord they began to creep as quietly as possible into the farmhouse garden. 🔊