← Old Major (so he was always called, though the name under which he had been exhibited was Willingdon Beauty) was so highly regarded on the farm that everyone was quite ready to lose an hour's sleep in order to hear what he had to say. 🔊
← Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal. 🔊
← Jones and his men suddenly found themselves being butted and kicked from all sides. The situation was quite out of their control. 🔊
← For the first few minutes the animals could hardly believe in their good fortune. Their first act was to gallop in a body right round the boundaries of the farm, as though to make quite sure that no human being was hiding anywhere upon it; then they raced back to the farm buildings to wipe out the last traces of Jones's hated reign. 🔊
← Old Benjamin, the donkey, seemed quite unchanged since the Rebellion. He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones's time, never shirking and never volunteering for extra work either. 🔊
← Their relations with the human race were now not quite the same as they had been before. 🔊
← The pigs' ears were bleeding, the dogs had tasted blood, and for a few moments they appeared to go quite mad. 🔊
← But for the first time it occurred to him that he was eleven years old and that perhaps his great muscles were not quite what they had once been. 🔊
← He was quite unchanged, still did no work, and talked in the same strain as ever about Sugarcandy Mountain. 🔊
← Yes, it was Squealer. A little awkwardly, as though not quite used to supporting his considerable bulk in that position, but with perfect balance, he was strolling across the yard. 🔊