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Quotes from Animal Farm by George Orwell
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1 The animals crowded round the van.
2 In desperation the animals began appealing to the two horses which drew the van to stop.
3 The time had been when a few kicks from Boxer's hoofs would have smashed the van to matchwood.
4 At this moment the man on the box whipped up his horses and the van moved out of the yard at a smart trot.
5 But a moment later his face disappeared from the window and there was the sound of a tremendous drumming of hoofs inside the van.
6 On the day appointed for the banquet, a grocer's van drove up from Willingdon and delivered a large wooden crate at the farmhouse.
7 Whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away.
8 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.
9 However, Benjamin and Clover could only be with Boxer after working hours, and it was in the middle of the day when the van came to take him away.
10 Too late, someone thought of racing ahead and shutting the five-barred gate; but in another moment the van was through it and rapidly disappearing down the road.
11 Sure enough, there in the yard was a large closed van, drawn by two horses, with lettering on its side and a sly-looking man in a low-crowned bowler hat sitting on the driver's seat.
12 Some of the animals had noticed that the van which took Boxer away was marked "Horse Slaughterer," and had actually jumped to the conclusion that Boxer was being sent to the knacker's.