← 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. 🔊
← Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on−that is, badly. 🔊
← Apart from the disputes over the windmill, there was the question of the defence of the farm. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← That evening Squealer explained privately to the other animals that Napoleon had never in reality been opposed to the windmill. 🔊
← By the autumn the animals were tired but happy. They had had a hard year, and after the sale of part of the hay and corn, the stores of food for the winter were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything. 🔊
← Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← It was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of Jones's gun. 🔊
← At the same time there were renewed rumours that Frederick and his men were plotting to attack Animal Farm and to destroy the windmill, the building of which had aroused furious jealousy in him. 🔊
← In the autumn, by a tremendous, exhausting effort−for the harvest had to be gathered at almost the same time−the windmill was finished. 🔊
← The whole of the big pasture, including the windmill, was in the hands of the enemy. 🔊
← 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 announced that the battle would be called the Battle of the Windmill, and that Napoleon had created a new decoration, the Order of the Green Banner, which he had conferred upon himself. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← Apart from the regular work of the farm, and the rebuilding of the windmill, there was the schoolhouse for the young pigs, which was started in March. 🔊
← He had gone out alone to drag a load of stone down to the windmill. 🔊
← About half the animals on the farm rushed out to the knoll where the windmill stood. 🔊