← Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty. 🔊
← Fix your eyes on that, comrades, throughout the short remainder of your lives! And above all, pass on this message of mine to those who come after you, so that future generations shall carry on the struggle until it is victorious. 🔊
← In January food fell short. The corn ration was drastically reduced, and it was announced that an extra potato ration would be issued to make up for it. 🔊
← Moreover, the walls were twice as thick as before. Nothing short of explosives would lay them low this time! 🔊
← The winter was as cold as the last one had been, and food was even shorter. 🔊
← In any case he had no difficulty in proving to the other animals that they were not in reality short of food, whatever the appearances might be. 🔊
← Reading out the figures in a shrill, rapid voice, he proved to them in detail that they had more oats, more hay, more turnips than they had had in Jones's day, that they worked shorter hours, that their drinking water was of better quality, that they lived longer, that a larger proportion of their young ones survived infancy, and that they had more straw in their stalls and suffered less from fleas. 🔊
← The farm had had a fairly successful year, but was still short of money. There were the bricks, sand, and lime for the schoolroom to be purchased, and it would also be necessary to begin saving up again for the machinery for the windmill. 🔊
← Napoleon himself appeared at the meeting on the following Sunday morning and pronounced a short oration in Boxer's honour. 🔊
← YEARS passed. The seasons came and went, the short animal lives fled by. A time came when there was no one who remembered the old days before the Rebellion, except Clover, Benjamin, Moses the raven, and a number of the pigs. 🔊
← Like all of Napoleon's speeches, it was short and to the point. He too, he said, was happy that the period of misunderstanding was at an end. 🔊
← But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. 🔊