← The two cart−horses, Boxer and Clover, came in together, walking very slowly and setting down their vast hairy hoofs with great care lest there should be some small animal concealed in the straw. 🔊
← "Our Leader, Comrade Napoleon," announced Squealer, speaking very slowly and firmly, "has stated categorically−categorically, comrade−that Snowball was Jones's agent from the very beginning−yes, and from long before the Rebellion was ever thought of." 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← The animals filed slowly past, and each gazed his fill. And Boxer put out his nose to sniff at the bank−notes, and the flimsy white things stirred and rustled in his breath. 🔊
← Slowly, and with an air almost of amusement, Benjamin nodded his long muzzle. "I thought so," he said. 🔊
← Slowly the breeze drifted it away. The windmill had ceased to exist! At this sight the animals' courage returned to them. 🔊
← They had won, but they were weary and bleeding. Slowly they began to limp back towards the farm. 🔊
← It was nearly nine o'clock when Squealer made his appearance, walking slowly and dejectedly, his eyes dull, his tail hanging limply behind him, and with every appearance of being seriously ill. 🔊
← There was a deadly silence. Amazed, terrified, huddling together, the animals watched the long line of pigs march slowly round the yard. 🔊