← In the end they finished the harvest in two days' less time than it had usually taken Jones and his men. 🔊
← Napoleon, on the other hand, argued that the great need of the moment was to increase food production, and that if they wasted time on the windmill they would all starve to death. 🔊
← By the time he had finished speaking, there was no doubt as to which way the vote would go. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← It was about this time that the pigs suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their residence there. 🔊
← The animals carried on as best they could with the rebuilding of the windmill, well knowing that the outside world was watching them and that the envious human beings would rejoice and triumph if the mill were not finished on time. 🔊
← For a long time the quarry was full of snowdrifts and nothing could be done. 🔊
← There were times when it seemed to the animals that they worked longer hours and fed no better than they had done in Jones's day. 🔊
← In the autumn, by a tremendous, exhausting effort−for the harvest had to be gathered at almost the same time−the windmill was finished. 🔊
← Boldly enough the animals sallied forth to meet them, but this time they did not have the easy victory that they had had in the Battle of the Cowshed. 🔊
← And in rebuilding it they could not this time, as before, make use of the fallen stones. 🔊
← But for the first time it occurred to him that he was eleven years old and that perhaps his great muscles were not quite what they had once been. 🔊
← BOXER'S split hoof was a long time in healing. They had started the rebuilding of the windmill the day after the victory celebrations were ended. Boxer refused to take even a day off work, and made it a point of honour not to let it be seen that he was in pain. 🔊
← For the time being, the young pigs were given their instruction by Napoleon himself in the farmhouse kitchen. 🔊
← So that, what with the songs, the processions, Squealer's lists of figures, the thunder of the gun, the crowing of the cockerel, and the fluttering of the flag, they were able to forget that their bellies were empty, at least part of the time. 🔊
← It would be the first time that he had had leisure to study and improve his mind. 🔊
← It was the first time that they had ever seen Benjamin excited−indeed, it was the first time that anyone had ever seen him gallop. 🔊
← It ended by their remaining there for a whole week, during which time the other animals saw nothing of them. 🔊
← What could be happening in there, now that for the first time animals and human beings were meeting on terms of equality? 🔊
← Mr. Pilkington had referred throughout to "Animal Farm." He could not of course know−for he, Napoleon, was only now for the first time announcing it−that the name "Animal Farm" had been abolished. 🔊