← His very first blow took a stable−lad from Foxwood on the skull and stretched him lifeless in the mud. 🔊
← It was almost half built now. After the harvest there was a stretch of clear dry weather, and the animals toiled harder than ever, thinking it well worth while to plod to and fro all day with blocks of stone if by doing so they could raise the walls another foot. 🔊
← Most of Animal Farm was within their view−the long pasture stretching down to the main road, the hayfield, the spinney, the drinking pool, the ploughed fields where the young wheat was thick and green, and the red roofs of the farm buildings with the smoke curling from the chimneys. 🔊
← The sight of their dead comrades stretched upon the grass moved some of them to tears. 🔊
← There lay Boxer, between the shafts of the cart, his neck stretched out, unable even to raise his head. 🔊