← ", and the pigs had great difficulty in making them see that this was contrary to the spirit of Animalism. 🔊
← It was as though they had never seen these things before, and even now they could hardly believe that it was all their own. 🔊
← The men gave a shout of triumph. They saw, as they imagined, their enemies in flight, and they rushed after them in disorder. 🔊
← And−I was a long way away, but I am almost certain I saw this−he was talking to you and you were allowing him to stroke your nose. 🔊
← Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?" The animals reassured him on this point immediately, and no more was said about the pigs sleeping in the farmhouse beds. 🔊
← All this while no more had been seen of Snowball. He was rumoured to be hiding on one of the neighbouring farms, either Foxwood or Pinchfield. 🔊
← But it was some minutes before they could fully take it in. They all remembered, or thought they remembered, how they had seen Snowball charging ahead of them at the Battle of the Cowshed, how he had rallied and encouraged them at every turn, and how he had not paused for an instant even when the pellets from Jones's gun had wounded his back. 🔊
← At first it was a little difficult to see how this fitted in with his being on Jones's side. 🔊
← "But he was wounded," said Boxer. "We all saw him running with blood." "That was part of the arrangement!" 🔊
← After a few minutes the men were seen to be running in all directions. Then there was a deafening roar. 🔊
← They saw that they were in danger of being surrounded. Frederick shouted to his men to get out while the going was good, and the next moment the cowardly enemy was running for dear life. 🔊
← But when the animals saw the green flag flying, and heard the gun firing again−seven times it was fired in all−and heard the speech that Napoleon made, congratulating them on their conduct, it did seem to them after all that they had won a great victory. 🔊
← BOXER'S split hoof was a long time in healing. They had started the rebuilding of the windmill the day after the victory celebrations were ended. Boxer refused to take even a day off work, and made it a point of honour not to let it be seen that he was in pain. 🔊
← on his lips. The wounds on Snowball's back, which a few of the animals still remembered to have seen, had been inflicted by Napoleon's teeth. 🔊
← He even claimed to have been there on one of his higher flights, and to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges. 🔊
← The animals were all at work weeding turnips under the supervision of a pig, when they were astonished to see Benjamin come galloping from the direction of the farm buildings, braying at the top of his voice. 🔊
← It was the first time that they had ever seen Benjamin excited−indeed, it was the first time that anyone had ever seen him gallop. 🔊
← "Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of that van?" That gave the animals pause, and there was a hush. 🔊
← It ended by their remaining there for a whole week, during which time the other animals saw nothing of them. 🔊
← Then they saw what Clover had seen. It was a pig walking on his hind legs. 🔊