← You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year. 🔊
← While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him. 🔊
← She was seen one day sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. 🔊
← Most of this time Mr. Jones had spent sitting in the taproom of the Red Lion at Willingdon, complaining to anyone who would listen of the monstrous injustice he had suffered in being turned out of his property by a pack of good−for−nothing animals. 🔊
← Then Napoleon stood up to reply. He said very quietly that the windmill was nonsense and that he advised nobody to vote for it, and promptly sat down again; he had spoken for barely thirty seconds, and seemed almost indifferent as to the effect he produced. 🔊
← But suddenly the dogs sitting round Napoleon let out deep, menacing growls, and the pigs fell silent and sat down again. 🔊
← Nowadays they did not sit all together as they had done in the past. Napoleon, with Squealer and another pig named Minimus, who had a remarkable gift for composing songs and poems, sat on the front of the raised platform, with the nine young dogs forming a semicircle round them, and the other pigs sitting behind. 🔊
← The rest of the animals sat facing them in the main body of the barn. 🔊
← They were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. 🔊
← The other animals sitting round her took it up, and they sang it three times over−very tunefully, but slowly and mournfully, in a way they had never sung it before. 🔊
← Sure enough, there in the yard was a large closed van, drawn by two horses, with lettering on its side and a sly−looking man in a low−crowned bowler hat sitting on the driver's seat. 🔊
← There, round the long table, sat half a dozen farmers and half a dozen of the more eminent pigs, Napoleon himself occupying the seat of honour at the head of the table. 🔊