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Quotes from Animal Farm by George Orwell
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1 She had taken to flight as soon as the gun went off.
2 And he moved off at his lumbering trot and made for the quarry.
3 Moses sprang off his perch and flapped after her, croaking loudly.
4 The animals were not badly off throughout that summer, in spite of the hardness of their work.
5 The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance.
6 Even the cat suddenly leapt off a roof onto a cowman's shoulders and sank her claws in his neck, at which he yelled horribly.
7 He stole the corn, he upset the milk-pails, he broke the eggs, he trampled the seedbeds, he gnawed the bark off the fruit trees.
8 For a moment there was great alarm; it was feared that the men might have harmed her in some way, or even carried her off with them.
9 The shed where Snowball had drawn his plans of the windmill had been shut up and it was assumed that the plans had been rubbed off the floor.
10 However, this was only a light skirmishing manoeuvre, intended to create a little disorder, and the men easily drove the geese off with their sticks.
11 And when the others came back from looking for her, it was to find that the stable-lad, who in fact was only stunned, had already recovered and made off.
12 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.
13 Finally there came a night when the gale was so violent that the farm buildings rocked on their foundations and several tiles were blown off the roof of the barn.
14 The horses carried it off in cart-loads, the sheep dragged single blocks, even Muriel and Benjamin yoked themselves into an old governess-cart and did their share.
15 As soon as they were well inside the yard, the three horses, the three cows, and the rest of the pigs, who had been lying in ambush in the cowshed, suddenly emerged in their rear, cutting them off.
16 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.
17 With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.
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