ribbon

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She took a place near the front and began flirting her white mane, hoping to draw attention to the red ribbons it was plaited with. 🔊

You will have all the oats and hay you want." "And shall I still be allowed to wear ribbons in my mane?" 🔊

asked Mollie. "Comrade," said Snowball, "those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. 🔊

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons? " Mollie agreed, but she did not sound very convinced. 🔊

Snowball also threw on to the fire the ribbons with which the horses' manes and tails had usually been decorated on market days. 🔊

"Ribbons," he said, "should be considered as clothes, which are the mark of a human being. 🔊

She had taken a piece of blue ribbon from Mrs. Jones's dressing−table, and was holding it against her shoulder and admiring herself in the glass in a very foolish manner. 🔊

Hidden under the straw was a little pile of lump sugar and several bunches of ribbon of different colours. 🔊

Her coat was newly clipped and she wore a scarlet ribbon round her forelock. She appeared to be enjoying herself, so the pigeons said. 🔊

About this time, too, it was laid down as a rule that when a pig and any other animal met on the path, the other animal must stand aside: and also that all pigs, of whatever degree, were to have the privilege of wearing green ribbons on their tails on Sundays. 🔊

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