← Major raised his trotter for silence. 🔊
← Then they filed back to the farm buildings and halted in silence outside the door of the farmhouse. 🔊
← The four young pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished the Meetings raised their voices timidly, but they were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs. 🔊
← Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements. 🔊
← Unable at first to speak, they stood gazing mournfully at the litter of fallen stone Napoleon paced to and fro in silence, occasionally snuffing at the ground. 🔊
← And for a little while they halted in sorrowful silence at the place where the windmill had once stood. 🔊
← But in the morning a deep silence hung over the farmhouse. Not a pig appeared to be stirring. 🔊
← The sheep were the greatest devotees of the Spontaneous Demonstration, and if anyone complained (as a few animals sometimes did, when no pigs or dogs were near) that they wasted time and meant a lot of standing about in the cold, the sheep were sure to silence him with a tremendous bleating of "Four legs good, two legs bad!" 🔊
← Muriel began to spell out the words. But Benjamin pushed her aside and in the midst of a deadly silence he read: " 'Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willingdon. 🔊
← There was a deadly silence. Amazed, terrified, huddling together, the animals watched the long line of pigs march slowly round the yard. 🔊