← Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. 🔊
← Our labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin. 🔊
← Bright will shine the fields of England, Purer shall its waters be, Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes On the day that sets us free. 🔊
← Any animal caught singing it was given a flogging on the spot. And yet the song was irrepressible. 🔊
← Though not yet full−grown, they were huge dogs, and as fierce−looking as wolves. 🔊
← And yet, against their will, they had developed a certain respect for the efficiency with which the animals were managing their own affairs. 🔊
← Except through Whymper, there was as yet no contact between Animal Farm and the outside world, but there were constant rumours that Napoleon was about to enter into a definite business agreement either with Mr. Pilkington of Foxwood or with Mr. Frederick of Pinchfield−but never, it was noticed, with both simultaneously. 🔊
← In the late summer yet another of Snowball's machinations was laid bare. The wheat crop was full of weeds, and it was discovered that on one of his nocturnal visits Snowball had mixed weed seeds with the seed corn. 🔊
← Wistful glances were sent in the direction of Foxwood. If Pilkington and his men would help them, the day might yet be won. 🔊
← But a few days later Muriel, reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. 🔊
← Liberal old−age pensions had been agreed upon. As yet no animal had actually retired on pension, but of late the subject had been discussed more and more. 🔊
← They all declared contemptuously that his stories about Sugarcandy Mountain were lies, and yet they allowed him to remain on the farm, not working, with an allowance of a gill of beer a day. 🔊
← But the explanation was really very simple. The van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not yet painted the old name out. 🔊
← It was used for milling corn, and brought in a handsome money profit. The animals were hard at work building yet another windmill; when that one was finished, so it was said, the dynamos would be installed. 🔊
← And yet the animals never gave up hope. More, they never lost, even for an instant, their sense of honour and privilege in being members of Animal Farm. 🔊