← I will sing you that song now, comrades. I am old and my voice is hoarse, but when I have taught you the tune, you can sing it better for yourselves. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers. The best known among them was a small fat pig named Squealer, with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice. 🔊
← The animals had now reassembled in the wildest excitement, each recounting his own exploits in the battle at the top of his voice. 🔊
← Boxer, who had now had time to think things over, voiced the general feeling by saying: "If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right." 🔊
← The four young pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished the Meetings raised their voices timidly, but they were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs. 🔊
← SNOWBALL!" he suddenly roared in a voice of thunder. "Snowball has done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year. 🔊
← He would put his snout to the ground, give several deep sniffs, and exclaim in a terrible voice, "Snowball! 🔊
← When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess. 🔊
← Napoleon called the animals together immediately and in a terrible voice pronounced the death sentence upon Frederick. 🔊
← Reading out the figures in a shrill, rapid voice, he proved to them in detail that they had more oats, more hay, more turnips than they had had in Jones's day, that they worked shorter hours, that their drinking water was of better quality, that they lived longer, that a larger proportion of their young ones survived infancy, and that they had more straw in their stalls and suffered less from fleas. 🔊
← At such times his lips were seen to form the words, "I will work harder"; he had no voice left. 🔊
← Clover dropped to her knees at his side. "Boxer!" she cried, "how are you?" "It is my lung," said Boxer in a weak voice. 🔊
← The animals were all at work weeding turnips under the supervision of a pig, when they were astonished to see Benjamin come galloping from the direction of the farm buildings, braying at the top of his voice. 🔊
← All the animals followed, crying out at the tops of their voices. Clover forced her way to the front. 🔊
← "Boxer!" cried Clover in a terrible voice. "Boxer! Get out! Get out quickly! They're taking you to your death!" 🔊
← Startled, the animals stopped in their tracks. It was Clover's voice. She neighed again, and all the animals broke into a gallop and rushed into the yard. 🔊
← That evening loud laughter and bursts of singing came from the farmhouse. And suddenly, at the sound of the mingled voices, the animals were stricken with curiosity. 🔊
← But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. 🔊
← Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. 🔊