FOUR in Classic Quotes

1  Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I

2  Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II

3  Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X

4  I am twelve years old and have had over four hundred children.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I

5  Napoleon had accepted, through Whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII

6  The four pigs waited, trembling, with guilt written on every line of their countenances.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII

7  They were the same four pigs as had protested when Napoleon abolished the Sunday Meetings.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII

8  In the autumn the four sows had all littered about simultaneously, producing thirty-one young pigs between them.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX

9  The next moment he and his four men were in the store-shed with whips in their hands, lashing out in all directions.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II

10  There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I

11  While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I

12  Finally he decided to be content with the first four letters, and used to write them out once or twice every day to refresh his memory.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III

13  But at this moment the four pigeons, who had been sent out on the day before, returned, one of them bearing a scrap of paper from Pilkington.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII

14  Immediately the dogs bounded forward, seized four of the pigs by the ear and dragged them, squealing with pain and terror, to Napoleon's feet.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII

15  Four young porkers in the front row uttered shrill squeals of disapproval, and all four of them sprang to their feet and began speaking at once.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V

16  In addition, four pigeons were sent to Foxwood with a conciliatory message, which it was hoped might re-establish good relations with Pilkington.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII

17  The four young pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished the Meetings raised their voices timidly, but they were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI