← Then Snowball (for it was Snowball who was best at writing) took a brush between the two knuckles of his trotter, painted out MANOR FARM from the top bar of the gate and in its place painted ANIMAL FARM. 🔊
← In the end they finished the harvest in two days' less time than it had usually taken Jones and his men. 🔊
← Snowball and Napoleon were by far the most active in the debates. But it was noticed that these two were never in agreement: whatever suggestion either of them made, the other could be counted on to oppose it. 🔊
← The birds at first objected, since it seemed to them that they also had two legs, but Snowball proved to them that this was not so. 🔊
← He was especially successful with the sheep. Of late the sheep had taken to bleating "Four legs good, two legs bad" both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. 🔊
← The building of the windmill, with various other improvements, was expected to take two years. 🔊
← Boxer would even come out at nights and work for an hour or two on his own by the light of the harvest moon. 🔊
← Napoleon was hesitating between the two, unable to make up his mind. It was noticed that whenever he seemed on the point of coming to an agreement with Frederick, Snowball was declared to be in hiding at Foxwood, while, when he inclined toward Pilkington, Snowball was said to be at Pinchfield. 🔊
← They had just finished singing it for the third time when Squealer, attended by two dogs, approached them with the air of having something important to say. 🔊
← Somehow or other, the last two words had slipped out of the animals' memory. But they saw now that the Commandment had not been violated; for clearly there was good reason for killing the traitors who had leagued themselves with Snowball. 🔊
← It was also announced that the gun would be fired every year on Napoleon's birthday, as well as on the other two anniversaries. 🔊
← The pile of timber was still unsold. Of the two, Frederick was the more anxious to get hold of it, but he would not offer a reasonable price. 🔊
← Two days later the animals were called together for a special meeting in the barn. 🔊
← The animals watched them, and a murmur of dismay went round. Two of the men had produced a crowbar and a sledge hammer. 🔊
← The two with the hammer and the crowbar were drilling a hole near the base of the windmill. 🔊
← "But they have destroyed the windmill. And we had worked on it for two years!" 🔊
← It was a moonlit night. At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. 🔊
← They had thought the Fifth Commandment was "No animal shall drink alcohol," but there were two words that they had forgotten. 🔊
← He intended, he said, to devote the rest of his life to learning the remaining twenty−two letters of the alphabet. 🔊
← Some did it better than others, one or two were even a trifle unsteady and looked as though they would have liked the support of a stick, but every one of them made his way right round the yard successfully. 🔊