← It is about this that I wish to speak to you. 🔊
← ", and the pigs had great difficulty in making them see that this was contrary to the spirit of Animalism. 🔊
← The animals rushed to the top of it and gazed round them in the clear morning light. 🔊
← This was to be the name of the farm from now onwards. After this they went back to the farm buildings, where Snowball and Napoleon sent for a ladder which they caused to be set against the end wall of the big barn. 🔊
← When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say. 🔊
← 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 last the day came when Snowball's plans were completed. At the Meeting on the following Sunday the question of whether or not to begin work on the windmill was to be put to the vote. 🔊
← In a moment he was out of the door and they were after him. Too amazed and frightened to speak, all the animals crowded through the door to watch the chase. 🔊
← They kept close to Napoleon. It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones. 🔊
← Again the animals seemed to remember that a resolution against this had been passed in the early days, and again Squealer was able to convince them that this was not the case. 🔊
← It was absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← About half the animals on the farm rushed out to the knoll where the windmill stood. 🔊
← It would be the first time that he had had leisure to study and improve his mind. 🔊
← However, Benjamin and Clover could only be with Boxer after working hours, and it was in the middle of the day when the van came to take him away. 🔊
← They are taking Boxer to the knacker's! " 🔊
← Much of this work was of a kind that the other animals were too ignorant to understand. 🔊
← But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?" 🔊
← Like all of Napoleon's speeches, it was short and to the point. He too, he said, was happy that the period of misunderstanding was at an end. 🔊
← The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. 🔊