stir

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As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings. 🔊

As he had said, his voice was hoarse, but he sang well enough, and it was a stirring tune, something between Clementine and La Cucaracha. 🔊

The boy did not stir. "He is dead," said Boxer sorrowfully. "I had no intention of doing that. 🔊

According to Snowball, they must send out more and more pigeons and stir up rebellion among the animals on the other farms. 🔊

These scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old Major first stirred them to rebellion. 🔊

The animals filed slowly past, and each gazed his fill. And Boxer put out his nose to sniff at the banknotes, and the flimsy white things stirred and rustled in his breath. 🔊

But in the morning a deep silence hung over the farmhouse. Not a pig appeared to be stirring. 🔊

The van began to gather speed. Clover tried to stir her stout limbs to a gallop, and achieved a canter. 🔊

No one stirred in the farmhouse before noon on the following day, and the word went round that from somewhere or other the pigs had acquired the money to buy themselves another case of whisky. 🔊

They had been credited with attempting to stir up rebellion among the animals on neighbouring farms. 🔊

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