HEDGES in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Animal Farm by George Orwell
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1 One of Mr. Pilkington's men was standing on the other side of the hedge.
2 The grass and the bursting hedges were gilded by the level rays of the sun.
3 This morning I saw you looking over the hedge that divides Animal Farm from Foxwood.
4 They could only be traced for a few yards, but appeared to lead to a hole in the hedge.
5 Then he put on an extra spurt and, with a few inches to spare, slipped through a hole in the hedge and was seen no more.
6 The blackbirds whistled it in the hedges, the pigeons cooed it in the elms, it got into the din of the smithies and the tune of the church bells.
7 The animals chased them right down to the bottom of the field, and got in some last kicks at them as they forced their way through the thorn hedge.
8 In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges.
9 His men were idle and dishonest, the fields were full of weeds, the buildings wanted roofing, the hedges were neglected, and the animals were underfed.
10 And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land, which saved a lot of labour on the upkeep of hedges and gates.
11 One of them, which was named Foxwood, was a large, neglected, old-fashioned farm, much overgrown by woodland, with all its pastures worn out and its hedges in a disgraceful condition.
12 And when the nine dogs of Napoleon's own bodyguard, whom he had instructed to make a detour under cover of the hedge, suddenly appeared on the men's flank, baying ferociously, panic overtook them.
13 Bulls which had always been tractable suddenly turned savage, sheep broke down hedges and devoured the clover, cows kicked the pail over, hunters refused their fences and shot their riders on to the other side.
14 All the pigeons, to the number of thirty-five, flew to and fro over the men's heads and muted upon them from mid-air; and while the men were dealing with this, the geese, who had been hiding behind the hedge, rushed out and pecked viciously at the calves of their legs.