← Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle White boar, had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals. 🔊
← A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance, and in fact he was not of first−rate intelligence, but he was universally respected for his steadiness of character and tremendous powers of work. 🔊
← After the horses came Muriel, the white goat, and Benjamin, the donkey. Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered. 🔊
← At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar. 🔊
← She took a place near the front and began flirting her white mane, hoping to draw attention to the red ribbons it was plaited with. 🔊
← The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white. These three had elaborated old Major's teachings into a complete system of thought, to which they gave the name of Animalism. 🔊
← The stupidest questions of all were asked by Mollie, the white mare. The very first question she asked Snowball was: "Will there still be sugar after the Rebellion? " 🔊
← Napoleon sent for pots of black and white paint and led the way down to the five−barred gate that gave on to the main road. 🔊
← The Commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away. 🔊
← First came the hoisting of the flag. Snowball had found in the harness−room an old green tablecloth of Mrs. Jones's and had painted on it a hoof and a horn in white. 🔊
← He was indefatigable at this. He formed the Egg Production Committee for the hens, the Clean Tails League for the cows, the Wild Comrades' Re−education Committee (the object of this was to tame the rats and rabbits), the Whiter Wool Movement for the sheep, and various others, besides instituting classes in reading and writing. 🔊
← It was surmounted by a portrait of Napoleon, in profile, executed by Squealer in white paint. 🔊
← The animals filed slowly past, and each gazed his fill. And Boxer put out his nose to sniff at the bank−notes, and the flimsy white things stirred and rustled in his breath. 🔊
← Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint−brush, and an overturned pot of white paint. 🔊
← "Boxer!" she cried. "Boxer! Boxer! Boxer!" And just at this moment, as though he had heard the uproar outside, Boxer's face, with the white stripe down his nose, appeared at the small window at the back of the van. 🔊
← For a minute or two they stood gazing at the tarred wall with its white lettering. 🔊
← If so, they would perhaps have noted that the white hoof and horn with which it had previously been marked had now been removed. 🔊