← "Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings? 🔊
← Unfortunately, the uproar awoke Mr. Jones, who sprang out of bed, sure that there was a fox in the yard. 🔊
← Moses sprang off his perch and flapped after her, croaking loudly. Meanwhile the animals had chased Jones and his men out on to the road and slammed the five−barred gate behind them. 🔊
← There was much discussion as to what the battle should be called. In the end, it was named the Battle of the Cowshed, since that was where the ambush had been sprung. 🔊
← At this Snowball sprang to his feet, and shouting down the sheep, who had begun bleating again, broke into a passionate appeal in favour of the windmill. 🔊
← They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws. 🔊
← Some of the pigs themselves, however, were more articulate. Four young porkers in the front row uttered shrill squeals of disapproval, and all four of them sprang to their feet and began speaking at once. 🔊
← By this time the weather had broken and the spring ploughing had begun. The shed where Snowball had drawn his plans of the windmill had been shut up and it was assumed that the plans had been rubbed off the floor. 🔊
← Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty−hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. 🔊
← They were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. 🔊
← Suddenly, early in the spring, an alarming thing was discovered. Snowball was secretly frequenting the farm by night! 🔊
← And do you not remember, too, that it was just at that moment, when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that Comrade Napoleon sprang forward with a cry of 'Death to Humanity!' 🔊
← It was a clear spring evening. The grass and the bursting hedges were gilded by the level rays of the sun. 🔊
← The others said, "Boxer will pick up when the spring grass comes on"; but the spring came and Boxer grew no fatter. 🔊
← Here it became apparent that Mr. Pilkington was about to spring some carefully prepared witticism on the company, but for a moment he was too overcome by amusement to be able to utter it. 🔊