Animal Farm word study

Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.

She had taken a piece of blue ribbon from Mrs. Jones's dressing-table, and was holding it against her shoulder and admiring herself in the glass in a very foolish manner.

At the beginning they met with much stupidity and apathy.

The cows lowed it, the dogs whined it, the sheep bleated it, the horses whinnied it, the ducks quacked it.

The early apples were now ripening, and the grass of the orchard was littered with windfalls.

And in a few days' time the pigs intended to hold a memorial banquet in Boxer's honour.

In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into the air in great leaps of excitement.

None of you has ever seen a dead donkey," and the others had to be content with this cryptic answer.

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Huge boulders, far too big to be used as they were, were lying all over the bed of the quarry.

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It happened that there was in the yard a pile of timber which had been stacked there ten years earlier when a beech spinney was cleared.

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"And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter.

He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark--for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

One afternoon in late February a warm, rich, appetising scent, such as the animals had never smelt before, wafted itself across the yard from the little brew-house, which had been disused in Jones's time, and which stood beyond the kitchen.

One day in early summer Squealer ordered the sheep to follow him, and led them out to a piece of waste ground at the other end of the farm, which had become overgrown with birch saplings.

Wistful glances were sent in the direction of Foxwood.

And Boxer put out his nose to sniff at the bank-notes, and the flimsy white things stirred and rustled in his breath.

Moreover, terrible stories were leaking out from Pinchfield about the cruelties that Frederick practised upon his animals.

Napoleon had denounced such ideas as contrary to the spirit of Animalism.

But suddenly the dogs sitting round Napoleon let out deep, menacing growls, and the pigs fell silent and sat down again.

In spite of the shock that Snowball's expulsion had given them, the animals were dismayed by this announcement.

And the news soon leaked out that every pig was now receiving a ration of a pint of beer daily, with half a gallon for Napoleon himself, which was always served to him in the Crown Derby soup tureen.

It was pure imagination, probably traceable in the beginning to lies circulated by Snowball.